Podcasts Culture Get Ready for Rome 47, Bernini Meets Ovid in the Villa Borghese

47, Bernini Meets Ovid in the Villa Borghese

Published: March 23, 2021, 4 p.m.

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We visit the Galleria Borghese and focus on two sensual statues sculpted by Gianlorenzo Bernini, both based on stories told by the old Latin poet Ovid. Both were commissioned by the Borghese family which then also held the papacy and was helping to build the new St. Peter\\u2019s Basilica. How do Ovid and these two statues fit into the Catholic worldview that was then being expressed in the new basilica? Or don\\u2019t they?

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