SCULPTURE ART SERIES #1 The Rape Of Persephone

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pluto and Proserpina (also know as the Rape of
Proserpina), 1621-22 marble (Galleria Borghese, Rome) Proserpina is
the Latin varient of the mythic Greek Persephone

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According to Greek Mythology; Persephone, was the daughter of Zeus and
Demeter, the goddess of harvest and fertility. The most persisting
suitor of Persephone was Hades, the god of the Underworld.

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Hades grabbed the lovely maiden before she could scream for help and
descended into his underworld kingdom while the gap in the earth
closed after them.

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We see it in a striking way that scane..