The most incredulous place I ever visited. Please enjoy the short video. 
“In his early twenties, Bernini made marble look alive—flesh that yields, hair that flies, a girl turning into a tree. These four works at the Borghese Gallery invented Baroque sculpture.” 
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born in Naples in 1598, son of a sculptor. The family moved to Rome when he was about eight. A true prodigy, he was already carving seriously as a child. Cardinal Scipione Borghese (nephew of Pope Paul V) spotted him and, between 1618 and 1625, commissioned the four monumental groups that made Bernini’s name. He was barely 20–27 years old when he created them. Later he would dominate Rome—St. Peter’s Baldacchino, the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square, the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, the great fountains—but these early works still feel like the purest expression of his genius: frozen motion, intense emotion, and stone that behaves like living tissue. The four major sculptures at the Borghese Gallery: 1Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1618–19)
Aeneas carries his elderly father while his young son follows as they flee Troy. Three generations, three textures of flesh—child, warrior, old man—twisting together. Bernini’s first big statement. 2The Abduction of Proserpina (Pluto and Persephone, 1621–22)
Pluto abducts Proserpina. The famous detail: his fingers press deeply into the soft marble of her thigh. Marble yields like flesh. Pure drama and technical bravura. 3David (1623–24)
Not the still, classical David—this one is mid-action, body twisting, sling loaded, face locked in concentration (many see a self-portrait). You stand in the line of the throw. The only major biblical subject among the four. 4Apollo and Daphne (1622–25)
The masterpiece. Apollo reaches for Daphne just as she transforms into a laurel tree. Bark climbs her legs, leaves sprout from her fingers, her hair becomes branches. A single frozen second of metamorphosis. Bernini (with help from his workshop on the delicate leaves) made the impossible look effortless. These works sit together in the Galleria Borghese and still stop people cold more than 400 years later. Closer (for the caption or final line):
Beauty that needs no lecture—just walk around them.