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The Rape of Proserpina
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This Italian porcelain statue dates back to 1750. Gaspero Bruschi was hired by the Doccia factory to reinterpret a Florentine bronze by Giovanni Battista Foggini. The statue depicts Pluto running through fire carrying Proserpina, Demeter's daughter, away to his palace in Hades. |
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