Awkward Statue

Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome’s Piazza Navona, with its four allegorical statues representing the Nile, the Ganges, the Rio de la Plata and the Danube, contains one of the most comical pieces of sculpture I’ve ever seen.

Actually, Nile’s head (center) is covered with a piece of cloth because at the time no one knew exactly where the source of the river was — but to me it just looks like he’s got tangled in his shirt.

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