This is well done.
I think its beginning (commenting on the Vatican setting) and ending (bringing in Medusa and "the g-d," (Neptune, but referred to that way, a reasonable stand-in for (the Vatican's) G-d) mean to add that element beyond description some readers feel missing. I can't quite put the poem's thought together, but I feel it thinking something more than a description.
Virgil is usually spelled in English without an "e," I think.
"Into the ocean’s green/.../...Neptune’s curse" seems to describe something that happens after the moment depicted in the statues, which is particularly confusing because it's semi-coloned to a present-tense sentence that takes us right back to the statue moment.
Snakes make Medusa tangentially relevant but, unless she's central to the point I'm missing, her presence may be muddying that point. (Of course, it could easily be my reading that is muddy.)
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