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Bernini's marble Apollo and Daphne viewed from the front
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Apollo and Daphne

Marble captures Daphne's metamorphosis into laurel at the very moment Apollo reaches her.

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Title
Apollo and Daphne
Creator
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Date
1622–1625
Holding source
Galleria Borghese
Medium
Sculpture
Mythic links
Apollo
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A cultural afterlife of the myth

Marble captures Daphne's metamorphosis into laurel at the very moment Apollo reaches her. MythBranch includes this work as evidence of later reception: it shows how a mythic figure or episode was selected, reshaped and transmitted for a new audience.

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Locally hosted, openly licensed

Photograph by Alvesgaspar

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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