Much of the Baroque grandeur of the Eternal City ... busts that he had first undertaken as a youth. "When Bernini came back to sculpture, it was not so virtuosic, not so many fireworks," says ...

The two sculptures were created in 1619 ... and hell was one of the central aspects of devotion. "Bernini was the great director of the Baroque", underlines Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican ...