Talk:Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)

Ovid

This article seems to be a nearly direct paraphrasing of Ovid's version of the tale: many of the lines are simply taken from a translation of it.

Are the four sentences "and he pursues ... her vagina" quotated from Ovid? If so should be marked as such. Otherwise they are almost incoherent. Also they belong logically at the end of the story not the beginning.Kildwyke (talk) 22:45, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I looked it up in Ovid and found as is suspected that "and he pursues ... grasps her by her left nipple ... accompanied by her vagina" was incoherent obscenities some buffoon put in, so I deleted them and rewrote the synopsis with real quotations. Kildwyke (talk) 22:45, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Apollo's Depiction

I was under the impression the depiction of Apollo in this sculpture was a direct allusion to the Apollo Belvedere. Can this be confirmed or disconfirmed? --JeffGirard (talk) 20:08, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Personal research?

"Although Apollo preached "All things in moderation" and was known to control his emotions, this sculpture clearly reveals him desperately pursuing love in vain. The failure of getting Daphne hints at Apollo's many failures with love in general, including being unable to win a maiden and his lovers' fidelity." There is absolutely no source for this, and if you'll just go to the page for Apollo, you'll probably see how the Greek God was NOT having much failures with love. The wives, the maidens, the children... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.246.170.184 (talk) 20:24, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Inscription

It may be worth recording the Latin lines accompanying this sculpture, since they impressed a world-class Latin scholar, and bring out the moral that contemporaries saw in it:

QUISQUIS AMANS SEQUITUR FUGITIVAE GAUDIA FORMAE

FRONDE MANUS IMPLET SEU BACCAS CARPIT AMARAS

"Whoever, as a lover, pursues the joys of fugitive beauty, grasps a handful of leaves, or plucks bitter fruit."

The author may have been Cardinal Barberini, but this could be verified on the spot.

Seadowns (talk) 00:24, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

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Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, created between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome as part of the Borghese Collection, the work depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Apollo clutches Daphne's hip, pursuing her as she flees from him. Apollo wears a laurel crown, and Daphne is portrayed halfway through her metamorphosis from human form into the laurel tree, with her arms already transforming into its branches as she flees and calls to her father to save her from Apollo.

Sculpture credit: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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