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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EgyptianAphorist@mindly.social ("Yahia Lababidi") wrote:
A 23-year-old did this with nothing more than a hammer and chisel.
That man was Gian Lorenzo Bernini (The Abduction of Proserpina, 1622).
He liked to boast that "in his hands marble could become as impressionable as wax and as soft as dough”.
