Bernini designed this elephant-with-obelisk sculpture, though it was actually executed by his pupil Ferrata. The Egyptian obelisk was found in the adjacent Dominican church, Santa Maria Sopra Minerva’s, garden. The obelisk is one of two moved from Sais, where it was built in 500 B.C. It was brought to Rome by the emperor Diocletian. Lucky […]
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