Flora - New York City, NY - Epic Beings and Creatures on Waymarking.com

This sculpture is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Museum's website (visit link) provides the information about this sculpture:

"Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Artist: Pietro Bernini (Italian, 1562–1629)
Artist: Assisted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome)
Date: 1616–17
Culture: Italian, Rome
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: confirmed: 89 1/8 × 34 3/8 × 27 1/2 in., 2507 lb. (226.4 × 87.3 × 69.9 cm, 1137.2 kg) Pedestal, confirmed: 42 1/2 × 30 × 30 in., 2719 lb. (108 × 76.2 × 76.2 cm, 1233.3 kg)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1990
Accession Number: 1990.53.1
On view in Gallery 534

This term and its mate, Priapus, were executed in Rome for Cardinal Scipione Borghese and placed at the main entrance of the Villa Borghese."

Time Period: Ancient Approximate Date of Epic Period: 2000 BC Epic Type: Mythical Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art

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