The 292 Artworks of media Terracotta and containing the word gian lorenzo bernini, terracotta, animals, 1650

Bernini made this dramatic image of a triton (a minor sea-deity of Greek mythology) grappling with a fish atop a gigantic shell as a presentation model for Pope Innocent X Pamphili, who in 1651 commissioned the artist to design a new centerpiece for the fountain at the south end of the Piazza Navona...

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During the 700s and 600s B.C., images of animals and monsters often decorated luxury items imported to Greece from the Near East. The Greeks soon began reproducing these images in their own art. Among these monsters was a half-human, half-bird creature that became linked with the Greek mythological ...

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