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Charity with Four Children - this terracotta sculpture is by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).

'Charity' was often personified in Western art as a woman nurturing several children - here she is shown nursing one child, with three other children playing around her. We note that Bernini himself had 11 children (9 survived) and wonder how much his own family life influenced this piece!



📷 Image credit: Sailko - CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30525035

[Image description: sculpture of a woman nursing an infant; three more children play around her legs. Her nursling has one foot resting against another child].