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Apollo and Daphne, a 5th–6th century A.D. ivory relief from Egypt (Ravenna, Italy, National Museum) features a musical Apollo who is serenading Daphne. Thus it also seems to reflect Knox's “Song of Apollo,” the lost literary account.
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The Latin poet, Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) retells Daphne’s story in Book 1 of his epic poem of transformation myths, the Metamorphoses. Ovid explains that Apollo’s desire was caused by Cupid, whom Apollo had slighted. In response, Cupid shot Apollo, causing him to feel intense passion for Daphne. But she was shot with another type of arrow, ensuring she ...
Since antiquity, the story of Daphne has been retold over and over again – painted, sculpted, performed and analysed. We can gaze at Daphne in all manner of poses in museums and galleries throughout Europe. The Galleria Borghese in Rome displays Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Daphne being seized by Apollo in a life-size, marble statue. Completed in 1625, i...
In the 20th century, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux and Ossip Zadkine all reworked Daphne; painting and sculpting her for a modernist audience. Zadkine’s sculpture, Daphné (1958) mirrors yet mocks Bernini’s work, rendering the nymph as a powerful root-bound tree of monumental grandeur and ungainly defiance. She, however, remains silent. In a new exhib...
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.
Oct 24, 2024 · Bernini captures the moment of Daphne’s transformation just as Apollo reaches out to grasp Daphne in this iconic sculpture, an ingenious choice that explores themes of love, desire, and metamorphosis.
Apollo Pursuing Daphne. Grade Level: 5–6. Students will be introduced to the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne by critically analyzing the painting Apollo Pursuing Daphne by Tiepolo. They will then design a coat of arms with symbols that best represent their personality and interests.
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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Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was executed between 1622 and 1625. It is regarded as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque age.
