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A white marble skull of Pope Alexander VII, long thought to have been lost, has now been discovered in the Germany city Dresden, where it has been for the almost 200 years.
The masterpiece by the famous Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), which has been described many times in historic texts, was discovered in a sculpture collection during the preparation of a Caravaggio exhibition of the Old Masters Picture Gallery, museum director Stephan Koja said.
The piece was long considered lost and had disappeared after going on loan to a nearby palace, Koja said, announcing in late May the “sensational discovery.”
The frighteningly real-looking skull and a spectacular loan from Rome – a painting showing the pontiff with the artwork – are the focus of the new show Bernini, the Pope and Death in the Semper Building of Dresden’s Zwinger palatial complex until the beginning of September.
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