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Jun 24, 2021 · While Daphne is saved from the assault of her human form, she is nonetheless forcibly objectified for the sake of Apollo’s desire. Loss of self. Since antiquity, the story of Daphne has been retold over and over again – painted, sculpted, performed and analysed.
Daphne (/ ˈdæfni /; DAFF-nee; Greek: Δάφνη, Dáphnē, lit. ' laurel '), [1] a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
Jul 24, 2024 · 1. Who were Daphne's parents in Greek mythology? 2. Why did Apollo pursue Daphne? 3. What is the significance of Daphne's transformation? 4. How has Daphne been depicted in ancient art? We will see where she came from, the intense chase by Apollo, and what her change into a tree symbolizes.
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Jul 31, 2021 · In A Biography of Daphne at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), the richly intertextual classical myth of Daphne is reconfigured to examine notions of metamorphosis, agency and resistance.
Jan 8, 2021 · When Apollo reached out to touch Daphne Peneus turned Daphne into a laurel tree. In doing this, Daphne could forever protect her maidenhood, and Apollo, still very much in love, made laurel leaves one of his symbols. The moment in the story where Apollo touches Daphne is the moment portrayed in Bernini’s statue.
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A Biography of Daphne is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis, symbiosis and entanglement in contemporary art.
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Jun 29, 2004 · Baldinucci cites Daphne's miraculous lifelikeness, a familiar critical topos for Bernini's art, which the inscription was to tame. Domenico specifically suggests that the figure of Daphne was like a live nude; purportedly made of stone, in Bernini's hand she attained a fleshlike presence that defied her medium.
