Apollo and Daphne.

Apollo and Daphne

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Title: Apollo and Daphne.

Author: Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Year: 1622-1625.

Style: Baroque.

Technique: Marble.

Location: Galería Borghese (Rome).

General description: Apollo and Daphne is an sculpture made by Bernini between 1622 and 1625 and he used marble. It is baroque and is situated in the galery borghese in Rome. The sculpture shows one man and one women, Apollo and Daphne, that is one mythological myth.



Apolo and Dafne is the piece of art that now I will analyse, his author is Bernini, a very famous baroque sculptor, but he not only was sculptor, he was artist, painter and architect.
The style is baroque, this we can see in the expressions of the Apollo and Dafphe, especially in her.
The Baroque was a period of history in western culture originated by a new way of conceiving art and , starting from different historical and cultural contexts , he produced works in many artistic fields, for example in the sculpture. The baroque was established in Europe at the beginning of XVII century.
For that time was a bad period for the society but not for the culture of course.


This sculpture is a group of figures which represent one episode of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Apollo and Daphne.We could see that Daphne is transforming in a laurel, the same that mythological story and Apollo is catching her.
The technique used it is marble and the volumetric form is with diagonal lines for example in the arms.
The effects of lights are from upward to backward, as the sun light.
Is a mythological sculpture, more typical of renaissance and the figures are so realistics and naturalism, a characteristic of baroque.
This sculpture is a very famous sculpture from Bernini, the best italian sculptor from baroque, but also It was other good sculptors like Juan Martinez Montañes a spanish woodcarver or Francois Duquesnoy a sculptor classical style marble,stone and bronze .


In my opinion, Bernini is one of the greatest sculptors of all time because watching his piece of art, we could see the expressions and the naturalism,like in this piece, and this, reflected is marmol, it is so hard and so difficult, and for me he has enormous merit also, the proportions are very good.