Skull sculpted by Bernini and owned by a pope discovered aleteia.org

Everybody knows the artwork of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whether they know his name or not.

Every time a papal Mass at the Vatican is broadcast on television, the audience sees the 17th-century artist’s baldachin hovering over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. Even if the event is outside, we see Bernini’s work in the colonnades surrounding St. Peter’s Square…

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