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Boy with a Dragon
Sculpture by Pietro Bernini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Boy with a Dragon is a c. 1617 white marble sculpture, now in the Getty Museum, which has owned it since 1987. It draws on the myth of the infant Hercules strangling serpents sent to kill him.
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It was carved by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII). In 1702 Urban's grand-nephew Carlo Barberini presented the work to Philip V of Spain on the latter's entry into Naples.
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- http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1155/pietro-bernini-and-gian-lorenzo-bernini-boy-with-a-dragon-italian-about-1617/
- https://books.google.com/books?id=u-i5ZGtbckMC&pg=PA77
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