Release from Deception

(Release from Deception (Il Disinganno) by Francesco Queirolo 1752–1759) 

Release from Deception (Il Disinganno), produced in 1752–1759, shows a fisherman being set free from a net by an angel. The masterpiece, by Francesco Queirolo, was carved from a single piece of marble and can be seen in Museo Capella Sansevero (“Sansevero Chapel Museum”) in Naples.

The inscription on the book at the bottom of the sculpture depicts in Latin the words of the angel to the fisherman, made up of three different Biblical quotations put together:

“I will burst thy bonds asunder, / being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, / that you will not be condemned with this world.”