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  2. File:Pollaiolo, Piero del - Apollo and Daphne.jpg - Wikipedia

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    English: The nymph Daphne prayed for rescue when she was pursued by the god Apollo. When he touched her, she was turned into a laurel. This is a story from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', Such pagan fables were popular subjects to decorate furniture in Florence.The landscape, like that in the altarpiece of the 'Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian', is based on the Arno valley near Florence, and is likely to ...

  3. Apollo and Daphne - Wikipedia

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    The myth purportedly explains the origin of the laurel tree and its connection to Apollo, although "Apollo was emphatically associated with the laurel before the advent of the Daphne myth." [ 1 ] Details vary between different versions, but the beautiful nymph Daphne rejects the love of Apollo and is turned into a tree.

  4. File:Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) (cropped).jpg - Wikipedia

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  5. Daphne - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. File:Apollo & Daphne September 2a.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Apollo, on whom Amor takes revenge by shooting him with an golden arrow, making him fall for the nymph Daphne, a disciple of Diana.The nymph, instead, is pierced by a dart made of lowly lead, rejects the god’s love, and begs her father, Peneus, a river god, to help her change the features that have aroused such passion.

  7. Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) - Wikipedia

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    Much of the early work on Apollo and Daphne was done in 1622–23, but Bernini's work on his sculpture of David (1623–24) interrupted its completion. Bernini finished Apollo and Daphne in 1625, [3] and it was moved to the Cardinal's Villa Borghese in September of that year. [4] Bernini did not execute the sculpture entirely by his own hand.

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  9. File:Apollo and Daphne, fresco from Pompeii.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Daphne (Mythologie) Usage on el.wikipedia.org Δάφνη (νύμφη) Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Daphné (nymphe) Usage on la.wikipedia.org Daphne (mythologia) Usage on ru.wikipedia.org Дафна; Usage on www.wikidata.org Q14376066; Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Top main subjects