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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 ...
Meret Oppenheim's Daphne and Apollo (1943, Lukas Moeschelin collection, Basel) has both Daphne and Apollo undergoing a metamorphosis, which reflects the artist's interest in androgyny. [1] Milet Andrejevic, a Yugoslavian immigrant to the U.S., set his Apollo and Daphne (1969, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence) in New York's ...
Hyacinthus was gifted a swan chariot by Apollo and appeared in ancient arts riding it, either to meet Apollo or to escape the advances of Zephyrus. [38] Swans were believed to be the birds of Hyperborea, a mystical land of eternal spring and immortality, to which Apollo himself traveled every winter on a chariot drawn by swans.
In his Dialogues of the Gods, satirical author Lucian of Samosata has Apollo call Daphne and Hyacinthus his two greatest loves, and regret losing them both; he declares himself unlucky in love, especially since Daphne found the option of becoming a tree more attractive than him. [23] Eros also mentions to Zeus Daphne not falling for Apollo. [24]
When Apollo taunts Cupid as the lesser archer, Cupid shoots him with the golden arrow, but strikes the object of his desire, the nymph Daphne, with the lead. Trapped by Apollo's unwanted advances, Daphne prays to her father, the river god Peneus , who turns her into a laurel, the tree sacred to Apollo.
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.
This is a list of famous pairs in mythology: Lovers. Abhimanyu and Uttara ; Acis and Galatea ; Aeneas and ... Apollo and Daphne ; Apollo and Hyacinth
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.