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The Cardboard Bernini: An Artist Spends 4 Years Building a Giant Cardboard Fountain Inspired by the Baroque Sculptor Bernini, Only to Let It Dissolve in the Rain

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From the Triton Fountain in the Piazza Barberini to the Fountain of the Four Rivers in...
From the Triton Fountain in the Piazza Barberini to the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s glorious public fountains have impressed visitors to Rome for centuries. Bernini angled for immorality when carving his Baroque masterpieces from marble. Image by Trdinfl, via Wikimedia Commons Eternity occupied artist James Grashow’s mind, […]

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