stabletransit:

Pluto e Proserpina (Pluto and Persephone)

By far, my favorite piece of almost all Italian art by my favorite Italian artist, Bernini.  And to think, this was done with marble, 400 years ago, by a man of only 23 years.

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bernini is kind of my god ngl i mean... look!! look at the fingers and the thigh and JESUS I CAN'T this is an art history blog now
toomuchart: Bernini only made the mattress on this one (Hermaphroditus Asleep) but what a damn fine mattress it is. high-res →

toomuchart:

Bernini only made the mattress on this one (Hermaphroditus Asleep) but what a damn fine mattress it is.

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hnggggg bernini is kind of my god ngl this is an art history blog now

stabletransit:

Pluto e Proserpina (Pluto and Persephone)

By far, my favorite piece of almost all Italian art by my favorite Italian artist, Bernini.  And to think, this was done with marble, 400 years ago, by a man of only 23 years.

(via the-greatelsewhere)

source: stabletransit
ugh yes yes yes yes yes yes yes this is an art history blog now bernini is kind of my god ngl

interwar:

Bernini, The Rape of Prosperina
Galleria Borghese, Rome. 

#yea gurl hit him in the face

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bernini is kind of my god ngl i just have a lot of feelings this is an art history blog now
fuckyeah-arthistory: Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Bernini, 1645-52. Located in the Cornero Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. high-res →

fuckyeah-arthistory:

Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Bernini, 1645-52. Located in the Cornero Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

(Source: cavetocanvas)

source: cavetocanvas
ugh i cannot perfect piece of perfection right here bernini is kind of my god ngl