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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 ...
Daphne (/ ˈ d æ f n i /; DAFF-nee; Greek: Δάφνη, Dáphnē, lit. ' laurel '), [1] a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
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 ...
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. Abhimanyu and Uttara ... Apollo and Daphne ; Apollo and ... Zeus and many mortal women and nymphs (see Zeus ...
• Daphne-do- loved by the god Apollo; see below entry of Daphne • Menippe-do- wife of Pelasgus, by whom she became the mother of Phrastor • Stilbe-do- bore to Apollo twin sons, Centaurus and Lapithus. • Cyrene-do- also called the daughter of Peneus' son Hypseus and mother of Aristaeus and Idmon by Apollo Trojan Nymphs or Trojan Naiads
The nymph sisters were romantically linked to the gods Apollo and Poseidon; Corycia, the sister after whom the Corycian Cave was named, was the mother of Lycoreus with Apollo, [3] [4] Kleodora was loved by Poseidon, and was the mother by him (or Kleopompos) of Parnassos (who founded the city of Parnassus [5]) while Melaina was also loved by ...