Focus on Saint Longinus (Bernini) and discuss the abstract.
Saint Longinus is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Completed in 1638, the marble sculpture sits in the north-eastern niche in the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. It is over four meters high and was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, a great patron of Bernini.
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