Apollo, one of the most powerful gods and a great warrior, mocked the god of love, Eros (Cupid), for his use of bow and arrow, saying, “What are you doing with powerful weapons naughty boy?”; “that equipment of yours are fitting my shoulders, which are able to give certain wounds to the wild animals, and to the enemies, which recently killed the swollen Python with countless arrows, the Python who was pressing down so many acres with his disease bearing stomach! You will be content to provoke some loves by your fire, not to claim my honors.”
The insulted Eros then prepared two arrows, one of gold and one of lead. To incite hatred, he shot both through the heart- the nymph, Daphne, with the leaden shaft to incite hatred and shot Apollo with the golden one to incite love. Apollo was seized with love for the maiden Daphne and she, in turn, abhorred him. Having taken after Apollo’s sister, Diana, Daphne had spurned her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the forest. Due to her identity as an “"aemula Phoebes” (female rival or emulator of Diana), she had dedicated herself to perpetual virginity. Her father, the river god Peneus, demanded that she get married and give him grandchildren. She, however, beseeched her father to let her remain unmarried; he eventually complied.
The sculpture was the last of a number of artworks commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, early on in Bernini's career. Apollo and Daphne was commissioned after Borghese had given an earlier work of his patronage, Bernini's Pluto and Persephone, to Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi.
Much of the early work was done in 1622–1623, but a pause, quite possibly to work on the sculpture of David, interrupted its completion, and Bernini did not finish the work until 1625. Indeed, the sculpture itself was not moved to the Cardinal's Villa Borghese until September 1625. Bernini did not execute the sculpture by himself; he had significant help from a member of his workshop, Giuliano Finelli, who undertook the sculpture of the details that show Daphne's conversion from human to tree, such as the bark and branches, as well as her windswept hair. Some historians, however, discount the importance of Finelli's contribution.
A Novel reaches for the dark, too, based on the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo (who in today’s money would be a sex-pest stalker). Apollo’s role here is a guy with the same name as the singer.
About six kilometers (four miles) west and beyond the suburb of Heraclea lay the paradise of Daphne, a park of woods and waters, in the midst of which rose a great temple to the Pythian Apollo.
Across the Empire, local provincial deities were reinterpreted within the context of Roman religious frameworks, based on similarities in function or characteristics with Roman gods.Apollo and Daphne, fresco from Pompeii.
He pierced Apollo’s heart with a golden arrow, causing him to fall passionately in love with the nymph Daphne... Whereas Apollo’s lust for Daphne’s visible beauty remained unsated, Psyche eventually enjoyed sex with her unseen husband.
DavidButtPhilip is genuinely world beating. He is a superb tenor and well on course to establishing himself as one of the best opera singers on the circuit ... As we speak, he is about to sing Apollo in Strauss’s Daphne at the State Opera in Berlin ... .
He was also accompanied by a platoon of bodyguards who stayed by his side on the streets of Rome all night ... He shared a picture of the Bernini's Apollo and Daphne marble sculpture and a picture of him with X Æ A-12 as they gazed at another piece ... .
No more so than in the hotel’s sprawling spa facilities, which feature marble walls etched with bushels of laurel (a nod to the myth of Daphne, the mythological nymph who turned into a tree at the ...
Apollo and DaphneGreek Gods Statue, 13 Inch...The Design Toscano Apollo and Daphne Greek Gods Statue is a stunning replica of the Baroque style statue depicting the tale of Apollo's pursuit of the unwilling goddess Daphne.
Daphne, forever playing hard-to-get with the love-sick Apollo, floats through many of the landscapes, fleeing into caves, dashing through curvaceous, minty hills, bolting into a leafy copse.
Daphne, forever playing hard-to-get with the love-sick Apollo, floats through many of the landscapes, fleeing into caves, dashing through curvaceous, minty hills, bolting into a leafy copse.
The two debutantes in the cast, Brad Cooper as a Luger-wielding jack-booted Apollo, and especially Claire Barnett-Jones as Daphne’s mother Gaea, took longer to make their full impact over the swell of ...
JAMES VERNIERE. Boston Herald. MOVIE REVIEW ...Sinclair (Richard E. Grant) ... Bertie has a clump of hair on his head that looks like it might talk to him in his sleep ... Eliot ... One piece is an evocation of the rape of the nymph Daphne by the god Apollo ... Nor do we.
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