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Much of the early work on Apollo and Daphne was done in 1622–23, but Bernini's work on his sculpture of David (1623–24) interrupted its completion. Bernini finished Apollo and Daphne in 1625, [3] and it was moved to the Cardinal's Villa Borghese in September of that year. [4] Bernini did not execute the sculpture entirely by his own hand.
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne in the Galleria Borghese Titian's Sacred and Profane Love. The Borghese Collection is a collection of Roman sculptures, old masters and modern art collected by the Roman Borghese family, especially Cardinal Scipione Borghese, from the 17th century on.
The Galleria Borghese (Italian for 'Borghese Gallery') is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana.At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction.
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, created between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome as part of the Borghese Collection, the work depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Apollo clutches Daphne's hip, pursuing her as she ...
The sculpture, the first in a series of major Borghese works including the David and the Apollo and Daphne, was finished in 1622 and delivered to the Villa Borghese, whose main facade already had the myth of Proserpina depicted. [5] Bernini received at least three payments for its creation, of the value of at least 450 Roman scudi. [3]
Apollo and Daphne, 1622–1625, Bernini commission (Galleria Borghese, Rome) Borghese used the immense wealth that he acquired as Cardinal Nephew to assemble one of the largest and most impressive art collections in Europe. The Borghese Collection began around a collection of paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Titian, and of ancient Roman ...
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Galleria Borghese, Rome 1623 Painting Oil on canvas 38 cm × 30 cm (15 in × 11.8 in) NA [19] David: Galleria Borghese, Rome 1623–1624 Sculpture Marble Height 170 cm (67 in) 17 [20] Apollo and Daphne: Galleria Borghese, Rome 1622–1625 Sculpture Marble Height 243 cm (96 in) 18 [21] Bust of Antonio Cepparelli: San Giovanni dei Fiorentini ...