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S<\/span><\/strong>tatue of Apollo & Daphne. <\/span><\/strong>H<\/strong>andmade of alabaster,and painted in museum patina.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the work depicts the climax of their\u00a0 story\u00a0 in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iconography of Apollo & Daphne<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

When Phoebus<\/a> (Apollo), fated by\u00a0Cupid’s love-exciting arrow, sees Daphne, the maiden daughter of\u00a0Peneus<\/a>, a river god, he is filled with wonder at her beauty and consumed by desire. But she has been fated by Cupid’s love-repelling arrow and denies the love of men. As the Nymph<\/a> flees he relentlessly chases her\u2014boasting, pleading, and promising everything. When her strength is finally spent she prays to her father Peneus:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Destroy the beauty that has injured me, or change the body that destroys my life.”.\u00a0 \u00a0Before her prayer was ended, torpor seized on all her body, and a thin bark closed around her gentle bosom.\u00a0 And her hair became as moving leaves; her arms were changed to waving branches, and her active feet as clinging roots were fastened to the ground\u2014her face was hidden with encircling leaves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The meaning of Apollo and Dafne statue is the unfulfilled love.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Daphne<\/a>\u00a0was a\u00a0nymph<\/a>\u00a0whose parentage varies. She scorned Apollo’s advances and ran away from him. When Apollo chased her in order to persuade her, she changed herself into a laurel tree. According to other versions, she cried for help during the chase, and\u00a0Gaea<\/a> helped her by taking her in and placing a laurel tree in her place. \u00a0According to Roman poet\u00a0Ovid, the chase was brought about by\u00a0Cupid, who hit Apollo with golden arrow of love and Daphne with leaden arrow of hatred. The myth explains the origin of the\u00a0laurel\u00a0and connection of Apollo with the laurel and its leaves, which his priestess employed at\u00a0Delphi. The leaves became the symbol of victory and laurel wreaths were given to the victors of the\u00a0Pythian games<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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