Apollo and Daphne

Pietro Bazzanti\nItalian\n1825 - 1895\nAfter Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)\nApollo and Daphne\n\nsigned: P. Bazzanti Firenze \nwhite marble\n100cm., 39½in.\nGianlorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne of 1622-25, housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, is widely admired as one of the great masterpieces that ushered in the Baroque period in sculpture. It depicts the moment Daphne turns into a tree in a clever play on the sculptural medium.\n\nFor the last and most ambitious of Berninis iconic myth

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