Apollo and Daphne
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble - sculpture , which the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in collaboration with Giuliano Finelli created from 1622 to 1625. It is in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. The client was Cardinal Scipione Borghese . The sculpture represents the climax in the story of Daphne and Phoebus from Ovid's Metamorphoses .
In 1709/10 Georg Friedrich Händel composed the Cantata drammatica Apollo e Dafne (HWV 122), the German title of which is "Apollo und Daphne".
This sculpture is said to have inspired Richard Strauss for his opera Daphne .
literature
- Peter Anselm Riedl : Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apoll and Daphne. Reclam Universal Library, No. 9049. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1960.
Web links
Commons : Apollo and Daphne - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Apollo and Daphne on the Borghese Gallery website (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Arne Karsten: Bernini, the creator of baroque Rome. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-34-0654-784-3 , p. 73.