Blessed Ludovica Albertoni by Bernini

The statue Blessed Ludovica Albertoni is not only daring. Only because Bernini was such a well known artist could he get away with this one. In the 17th century this was right out porn.

A Very Late Entry or Rome - part IV

February 20th 2008
The art in Rome and the Etruscans I arrived home from Rome one and a half months ago. But I never got around to finish the last blog entry I wrote when I was there. But better late then never so here it comes. The fourth and last blog entry on my trip to Rome. Emma and I try to run regularly to stay fit. Not that we can claim to be any good runners. But we like it and it is good exe ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

27th October 2010

simon lee
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Nonsense
You have spent to much time hunched up over men's magazines if you think this sculpture is remotely concerned with pornography. She is either dying or has just had a visionary experience and so the only way to suggest this is to show her ecstatic and with agitated drapery. Don't judge the past by the low and smutty standards of the present.

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