Apollo e Dafne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1625
by Paolo Modena
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Apollo e Dafne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1625
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Paolo Modena
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini's masterpiece, Apollo e Dafne, white marble statue, dated 1625. The legend: after a lengthy pursuit, Apollo thinks he has finally caught Daphne. He has a hand on what he thinks is her hip, but her flesh is already turning into the bark of a tree. An extraordinary masterpiece... suffused with an energy that works out of the tips of the laurel leaves and Apollo's hand and drapery.
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July 26th, 2021
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Paolo Modena
When famed Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini unveiled Apollo and Daphne in 1625, the marble work was resoundingly hailed as a meraviglia—a marvel. Not yet 30 years old, the sculptor had captured motion, transformation, sexual appetite, and terror more convincingly than any other artist working in stone before him. “Immediately when it was...finished, there arose such a cry that all Rome concurred in seeing it as a miracle,” art historian Filippo Baldinucci recalled of the masterpiece’s public debut.
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