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     No one before Bernini had managed to make marble so carnal. In his nimble hands it would flatter and stream, quiver and sweat. His figures weep and shout, their torses twist and run, and arch themselves in spasms of intense sensation. He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another - marble into trees, leaves, hair, and, of course, flesh.        -   Simon Schama’s Power of Art. Bernini

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) “Hebe” (1816) Marble Located in the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hebe is the ancient Greek goddess of youth, and the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles; her successor was the hero Ganymede.

Pallas Athena Fountain, Vienna