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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Female lovers of Apollo" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... Daphne; Dia (mythology) E. Euboea (mythology) Evadne; H ...
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]
Through Leto, Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. The names Phoebe and Phoebus (masculine) came to be applied as synonyms for Artemis/Diana and Apollo respectively, [8] as well as for Luna and Sol, the lunar goddess and the solar god, by the Roman poets; the late-antiquity grammarian Servius writes that "Phoebe is Luna, like ...
Muses (mythology) (44 P) Pages in category "Women of Apollo" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
This is a list of famous pairs in mythology: Lovers ... Apollo and Daphne ; Apollo and Hyacinth ... Zeus and many mortal women and nymphs (see Zeus) Twins