Damned Soul (Bernini)

Damned Soul (Italian: Anima dannata) is a marble sculpture bust by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini as a pendant piece to his Blessed Soul.^[1] According to Rudolf Wittkower, the sculpture is in the Palazzo di Spagna in Rome. This may well be what is known today as the Palazzo Monaldeschi.^[2]

Damned Soul
Latin: Anima damnata
Artist	Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Year	1619 (1619)
Catalogue	7
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Marble
Dimensions	Life-size
Location	Palace of Spain, Rome
Preceded by	Bust of Pope Paul V
Followed by	Blessed Soul (Bernini)

There is a bronze copy, executed by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi some time between 1705 and 1707, in the Liechtenstein Collection.

Recent scholarship on the sculpture has queried whether its topic is not the Christian personifications of pain (possibly inspired by prints by Karel van Mallery),^[3][4] but a depiction of a satyr.^[1]

See also

• List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini