The Most Controversial Sculpture in Art History

There are men carved in marble sitting in theatre boxes in the side walls of this chapel, leaning out, talking to each other, watching. Almost every photograph you have ever seen of this sculpture crops them out. And the light falling on her is not a lamp. It comes through a window you cannot see — which means the most famous sculpture of the Baroque looks different at nine in the morning than it does at four in the afternoon, and has done for over three hundred years. Did you know about the audience in the walls? Tell me in the comments. #Bernini #ArtHistory #Sculpture #Rome