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Boy with a Dragon

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Boy with a Dragon
ArtistPietro Bernini/Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Year1617 (1617)
MediumWhite marble
SubjectHercules
LocationGetty Museum, Los Angeles
OwnerGetty Museum
Accession1987

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.

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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