The Naiads —Nymphs of freshwater— were guardians of sacred places, nurturers of infant gods, fierce defenders against assaults to their purity. I glanced at this sculpture in a repository of unhexibited artifacts in a Villa Borghese’s museum. It was lying amid sparse marbles and stones, as a relic of the time when these symbols of Feminine and Nature bridged the human and the divine worlds.
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