Rebuilding The Renaissance
Episode 291 - Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne”
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:18:46
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Sinopsis
In 1622, at the age of 24, Gian Lorenzo Bernini began carving his most spectacular sculpture, the “Apollo and Daphne,” for Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The marble statue magically demonstrates the transformation of the nymph Daphne into a laurel tree to escape the advances of the god Apollo.
