Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)i

Galleria Borghese, Room III If one work justifies the whole Borghese booking, it is this. Bernini carved it in his early twenties, between 1622 and 1625, and caught the instant Daphne turns into a laurel tree: bark climbs her legs, leaves sprout from her fingers and Apollo's hand lands on a body…

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