This virtuosic sculpture, bigger than life-size (243 cm/ 96 in high) in marble, by Bernini, depicts Apollo, left, pursuing Daphne. He's just about caught her, but she cries out to her father for help--so she's turned into a tree, a process just beginning to happen: see the leaves sprouting from her upraised fingers, and the bark forming about her lower body. Poor Apollo: foiled again!

Surely this is one of the most beautiful things one can do with #Stone : this marble sculpture, "Apollo & Daphne" (1622-25), by Gian Lorenzo #Bernini. It is a star attraction at the Galleria Borghese, Rome.

25 October 2015

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A cllose up of Daphne's face from Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne caught at the moment she is turning into a laurel tree.

A living moment in #Stone from Bernini's Apollo and Daphne! #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Bernini #Rome #ApolloAndDaphne #GalleriaBorghese #BorgheseGallery #Italy #Baroque

Great Art Explained: #Bernini's #ApolloandDaphne
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👉 This VE dropped last year, but it came up again on YT feed and I remember liking it so much I thought I'd share it with all the Art Fans on feeds.

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@dhrmonth Day 20: Mythology - Apollo and Daphne. Not only is the statue by Bernini my single favorite piece of art, but Ovid's Metamorphoses is my favorite work of Latin literature.

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A close-up of Daphne's face as she transitions to a Laurel tree. From Bernini's sculpture.

A close-up up of Daphne's fingers turning i to laurel branches and leaves from Bernini's sculpture.

Capturing the moment of #mystery Bernini's Apollo and Daphne #SensoryArt #EastCoastKin #Bernini #ApolloAndDaphne #Borghese #Rome #Italy

Apollo and Daphne! 🍃

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A close-up of Daphne's face from Bernini's statue.

Looking at Apollo and Daphne's head from Bernini's statue.

Looking right at Daphne's hands as they transition to a laurel plant.

Watching Daphne turn into a laurel plant.

Apollo and Daphne by Bernini at the Borghese. #stunday #EastCoastKin #bernini #borghese #borghesegallery #ApolloandDaphne

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Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) - view one. What one would have seen entering the room, legs, a back, flowing cloth.

Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) - view two. Entering further and the story is revealed but both figures appear mostly human.

Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) - view three. Completing the view and the story, forced on Daphne transforming, roots, bark, leaves and terror.

A detail, Apollo and Daphne (Bernini), him unaware still of the product of his chase, her dreading the embrace and crying to her father to transform her

#Bernini #3
Two arrows fell, one
to repel With love’s despair
Left wreathed in hair
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