Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)

Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture that was created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1622-1625. It stands in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli - client was Borghese.

The sculpture depicts the climax of the story of Daphne and Phoebus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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