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Legros Pierre

Religion Driving Out Heresy

In the truly sculptural solution of the agitated Baroque composition, Legros seems decidedly more at ease than his colleague, perhaps owing to a more disdainful daring in treating marble like clay, so as to remove from the figures any sense of constraint or static rule.

How to cite

Bruno Balestrini (photograph), “Religion Driving Out Heresy”, work by Legros Pierre, Baroque Sculpture, Rome, Chiesa del Gesù. Bruno Balestrini Photographic Archive, https://brunobalestrini.org/cita/sch00388/. Accessed [date accessed].

This English text was translated with the help of artificial intelligence (Claude) from the Italian original, except where an English version already existed in the original archive. Read the Italian version.