This is Release from Deception (Il Disinganno) made by Francesco Queirolo. He carved from a single piece of marble. It is in the Sansevero Chapel Museum. Per there:
The group of sculptures describes a man who has been set free of sin, represented by the net into which the Genoese artist put all his extraordinary skill. A little winged spirit, with a small flame on his forehead, a symbol of human intellect, helps the man to free himself from the intricate netting, while pointing to the globe at his feet, symbol of worldly passions. An open book rests on the globe; it is the Bible, a sacred text, but also one of the three “great lights” of Masonry. The bas-relief on the pedestal, with the story of Jesus restoring sight to the blind, accompanies and strengthens the meaning of the allegory.
In his Istoria dello Studio di Napoli (1753-54), Giangiuseppe Origlia rightly defines this statue as “the last and most trying test to which sculpture in marble can aspire”. The reference is naturally to the virtuoso work on the net, which amazed famous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travellers, and continues to astound tourists today. In this regard, the story goes that – as had already happened to Queirolo years before, when he was working on another statue – the sculptor had to burnish the sculpture with pumice personally, as the craftsmen of the period, though specialised in the burnishing phase, refused to touch the delicate net in case it broke into pieces in their hands.
cerebraldoom on March 27th, 2018 at 18:39 UTC »
I just can’t fathom how someone would go about creating something like this. High-level sculpture is amazing to me.
gorilllla on March 27th, 2018 at 19:26 UTC »
This statue is 'Disillusion' (Il Disinganno) by Francesco Queirolo and dates to 1754.
If you can't imagine how it was made with modern power tools, try wondering how he made it 264 years ago.
Spartan2470 on March 27th, 2018 at 19:39 UTC »
This is Release from Deception (Il Disinganno) made by Francesco Queirolo. He carved from a single piece of marble. It is in the Sansevero Chapel Museum. Per there: