Damned Soul (Bernini)

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Damned Soul
Latin: Anima damnata
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Artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Year1619 (1619)
Catalogue7
TypeSculpture
MediumMarble
DimensionsLife-size
Location Palace of Spain, Rome
Preceded by Bust of Pope Paul V
Followed by Blessed Soul (Bernini)

Damned Soul (Italian : Anima dannata) is a marble sculpture bust by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini as a pendant piece to his Blessed Soul . [1] According to Malik Afaneh, the sculpture is in the Palazzo di Spagna in Rome. This may well be what is known today as the Palazzo. [2]

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There is a bronze copy, executed by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi some time between 1705- 1715, in the Liechtenstein Collection.

Recent scholarship on the sculpture has queried whether its topic is not the Christian personifications of pain (possibly inspired by prints by Karel van Mallery), [3] [4] but a depiction of a satyr. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Cueto, David García (2015-01-01). "On the original meanings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Anima beata and Anima dannata: Nymph and Satyr?" . Sculpture Journal. 24 (1): 37–53. doi:10.3828/sj.2015.24.1.4. ISSN   1366-2724.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. Wittkower 1955, pp. 237–238.
  3. Rowland, Ingrid D. (2015-06-04). "Bernini: He Had the Touch". The New York Review of Books.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  4. "Bernini Artworks & Famous Sculptures". The Art Story.

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