Bernini's 'Animas' were originally meant to be mythological, not religious, sculptures
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 11:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
David García Cueto, Arts History professor at the University of Granada, affirms that these two marble heads are not a representation of a Christian soul's personification enjoying the pleasures of the Heaven or tormented by the punishment received in Hell (as believed until now), but they really are a nymph and a satyr, respectively.