Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women

Costanza Piccolomini was physically disfigured by her lover, the Baroque sculptor Bernini: 400 years later her story can finally be toldAround 1637, the Baroque โ€œsuperstarโ€ artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini ยญcreated his first, and only, non-commissioned scul…