Gian Lorenzo Bernini was probably the most important Baroque’s artist. He was a sculpture and an architect, he was able to secure the most important commissions in the Rome of his day, such as the various massive embellishment projects of the newly finished St. Peter's Basilica.
The sculpture representing Apollo and Daphne was realized for the Cardinal Borghese and had immediately a great success.
The story is told by Ovid’s Metamorphosis and is about the God Apollo chasing after the nymph Daphne. She turned into a laurel oak, a plant that became sacred for the God, in order to escape from him. The sculpture is one of the most dynamic ever made, it represents the exact moment in which the God is reaching and touching her and she’s starting her transformation. Her hands are turning into leaves and her foot into roots, while her body is been covering by bark.
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