Bernini at 20 | Doomscroll Buster

As Europe slid into the Thirty Years' War, a young sculptor carved a son carrying his father out of a burning city.

In 1618, at about 20, Gian Lorenzo Bernini began Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius. It shows the Trojan hero carrying his old father on his shoulders and leading his young son away from Troy's fall.

That same year, the Thirty Years’ War broke out across Europe. Four hundred years later, the statue still stands in Rome’s Galleria Borghese, a picture of carrying what you love through the fire.

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