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Roman, Apollo and Daphne, c. 62–79 A.D., fresco from South wall of Casa dell’Efebo, Pompeii showing Apollo holding a sprig of laurel, while Daphne is perhaps dancing. It likely reflects a pre-Ovidian source. [1] Apollo and Daphne is an Ancient Greek transformation or metamorphosis myth.
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.
Apollo and Daphne, a marble sculpture made 1622–1625 by Bernini (1598–1680), inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, Galleria Borghese, Rome.Depicting the initial stage of Daphne's transformation, with her fingers shown as branches of laurel and her toes taking root into the ground
Apollo and Daphne (c. 1470–1480). Apollo and Daphne is a c.1470–1480 oil on panel painting, attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo and/or his brother Antonio).William Coningham acquired it in Rome in 1845 and in 1876 Wynne Ellis left it to the National Gallery, London, where it still hangs. [1]
The sculpture, the first in a series of major Borghese works including the David and the Apollo and Daphne, was finished in 1622 and delivered to the Villa Borghese, whose main facade already had the myth of Proserpina depicted. [5] Bernini received at least three payments for its creation, of the value of at least 450 Roman scudi. [3]
Apollo and Daphne is a transformation myth of Hellenistic origin. Apollo and Daphne may also refer to: Apollo and Daphne, a 1622–1625 sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; Apollo e Dafne, a 1709–1710 cantata composed by George Frideric Handel; Apollo and Daphne, a 1661–1664 oil-on-canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin
Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne, HWV 122) is a secular cantata composed by George Frideric Handel in 1709–10. Handel began composing the work in Venice in 1709 and completed it in Hanover after arriving in 1710 to take up his appointment as Kapellmeister to the Elector, the later King George I of Great Britain. [1]
Apollo and Daphne or Apollo in Love with Daphne is an oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, from 1661-1664, produced shortly before the painter's death.