Pluto and Persephone Sculpture book nook whose recent work concerns the

whose recent work concerns the history of museums and collections in the early-modern period

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and Richard Shiff explores the eternal "change to stay the same" of Willem de Kooning's final productive decade

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Paul Martineau selected masterpieces as well as images from obscure sources: daguerreotypes

Pluto and Persephone Sculpture book nook whose recent work concerns theThis sculpture illustrates the Greek myth of Pluto, god of the Underworld, in pursuit of his love Persephone (Proserpina), whom he abducted while she was gathering flowers on the plain of Enna in Sicily. The lifesize original, by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 1680), is a typical Baroque composition which emphasizes dynamism, depicting Pluto's pursuit in a spiraling flight of energy and struggle. The original sculpture can be found at the Galleria