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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Apollo and Daphne
Work_PrefTitle
Apollo and Daphne
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Image View:
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Detail of base with gryphon (griffin) cartouche and couplet by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini
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Detail of base with gryphon (griffin) cartouche and couplet by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini
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Creator:
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Cardinal Scipione Borghese (Italian patron, 1576-1633); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor, 1598-1680)
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Cardinal Scipione Borghese (Italian patron, 1576-1633); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor, 1598-1680)
Creator
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. CV
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repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. CV
Location
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Location Note:
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Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5
Work_LocationNotes
Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5
Location Note
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GPS:
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41.914 12.492
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Date:
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1622-1624 (creation)
Work_DateDisplay
1622-1624 (creation)
Date
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
Work_Culture
Italian
Cultural Context
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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sculpture
Work_Classification
sculpture
Classification
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Material:
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Carrara marble
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Carrara marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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carving (processes)
Technique
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Measurements:
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243 cm (height)
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243 cm (height)
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Description:
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The spectacular Apollo and Daphne was inspired by a passage in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and was conceived, in part, as a challenge to both poetry and painting. The metamorphosis of Daphne into a laurel tree is a technical tour de force representing an apparent transmutation of marble into leaves, bark, cloth and flesh. This hallucinatory realism is matched by an extraordinary temporal innovation. The group was originally placed in a room against an interior wall close to two corner doors. Upon entering, the viewer would see only the back of Apollo and his flowing drapery, the drama unfolding in real time and space as the spectator went further into the room. Here Bernini controlled the viewer’s experience, as he did later on a much larger scale in St. Peter’s. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
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The spectacular Apollo and Daphne was inspired by a passage in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and was conceived, in part, as a challenge to both poetry and painting. The metamorphosis of Daphne into a laurel tree is a technical tour de force representing an apparent transmutation of marble into leaves, bark, cloth and flesh. This hallucinatory realism is matched by an extraordinary temporal innovation. The group was originally placed in a room against an interior wall close to two corner doors. Upon entering, the viewer would see only the back of Apollo and his flowing drapery, the drama unfolding in real time and space as the spectator went further into the room. Here Bernini controlled the viewer’s experience, as he did later on a much larger scale in St. Peter’s. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
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Image Description:
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The presence of this pagan myth in the Cardinal Borghese's villa was justified by a moral couplet composed in Latin by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) and engraved on the cartouche on the base, which says: Those who love to pursue fleeting forms of pleasure, in the end find only leaves and bitter berries in their hands.
Image_Description
The presence of this pagan myth in the Cardinal Borghese's villa was justified by a moral couplet composed in Latin by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) and engraved on the cartouche on the base, which says: Those who love to pursue fleeting forms of pleasure, in the end find only leaves and bitter berries in their hands.
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
LocalCollection
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BG-BG-AAD-G01
Image_OriginalVendor ID
7A1-BG-BG-AAD-G01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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