# Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622–1625) Canonical article: https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/apollo-and-daphne-gian-lorenzo-bernini-1622-1625 - **Painting:** Apollo and Daphne - **Artist:** Gian Lorenzo Bernini - **Date:** 1622–1625 - **Medium:** Marble sculpture - **Current location:** Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy - **Period:** Baroque - **Culture:** Italian A docent-led reading of Bernini's marble group in the Galleria Borghese, in which Daphne turns into a laurel tree at the instant Apollo catches her. The tour explains the Ovidian subject, then connects the visible choices of carving, pose and surface to the meaning of the transformation. ## High-resolution image [Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622–1625) | High-resolution image](https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/7feb4442f84e78ba0db3369e130324a7c6ff2cc52f317b7a651222a0e4c8fa69.png) Available image: 3,648 × 5,472 pixels. ## Artwork presentation record Artwork accent colour: #4A3416. Original-image hero position: 50% horizontal, 50% vertical. Decorative crops use the original artwork image; they are not technical examination images. ## Details to notice ### Rocky base with carved foliage and plaque Detail ID: carved_base_and_inscription. The irregular rocky mound at the bottom of the group, carved with acanthus-like foliage and roots and bearing a small inscribed cartouche; useful for checking tool marks and the carved text on the plinth. Original-image crop (%): x 15, y 79, width 55.00000000000001, height 21. ### Apollo's stride and flying drapery Detail ID: apollo_stride_and_drapery. Apollo's advancing leg with sandalled foot, outstretched arm and billowing cloth wrapped at the hips, the drilled and undercut drapery that makes the marble read as motion. Original-image crop (%): x 4, y 34, width 36, height 52. ### Bark encasing Daphne's legs Detail ID: bark_and_trunk_transformation. Roughly tooled bark rising over Daphne's thighs and calves and merging into a tree trunk with emerging leaves and roots, a deliberate contrast of unfinished, textured surface against polished flesh. Original-image crop (%): x 35, y 38, width 42, height 45. ## The story This is Bernini's marble group of Apollo and Daphne. It shows the moment the nymph Daphne transforms into a laurel tree to escape the god Apollo, who is pursuing her. The source for this subject is Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Bernini carved the group in the Baroque period. Evidence: documented. Source references: source-1. Apollo is behind Daphne and has caught her, but she is already changing. Her body is becoming bark, and leaves sprout from her fingers. Bernini has carved this in marble, so the softness of flesh and the hardness of bark share one material. Evidence: observation. Source references: source-1. Ovid's story gives the chase a cause and a consequence. Apollo pursues Daphne, and just as he seizes her, her father, the river god Peneus, answers her prayer and turns her into a laurel. Bernini captures the instant when the pursuit ends and the tree begins. Evidence: interpretation. Source references: source-1. The sculpture does not show a simple chase. It shows two bodies moving in opposite directions at once: Apollo forward and Daphne upward and outward into the tree. The twisting pose makes the transformation visible as a struggle between grasping and escaping. Evidence: interpretation. Source references: source-1. What stays with you is the double nature of the moment. Daphne is still a woman and already a tree, and Apollo holds only the beginning of his loss. Bernini has made the myth's change of form into the sculpture's whole subject. Evidence: interpretation. Source references: source-1. ## About the artist ### Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 to 1680 Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680). Their work is associated with Baroque. Their recorded places of work include Italy; Paris; Rome; Siena. - **Born:** 1598 - **Died:** 1680 - **Nationality:** Italy - **Birthplace:** Naples - **Died in:** Rome; Palazzi Bernini ![Artist portrait of Gian Lorenzo Bernini]() Artist portrait. Image credit: Gian Lorenzo Bernini. [Image source](). [Licence: Public domain](). - [Wikidata: Gian Lorenzo Bernini]() ## Research and reference record ### Structured catalogue record #### Title Field ID: title. Apollo and Daphne Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] #### Artist or attribution Field ID: artist. Gian Lorenzo Bernini Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Object date Field ID: date. 1622–1625 Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Medium and support Field ID: medium. Marble sculpture Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] #### Current collection or location Field ID: location. Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] #### Movement or period Field ID: period. Baroque Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Country or culture Field ID: culture. Italian Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Depicted subject Field ID: subject-summary. A marble sculpture group depicting the moment the nymph Daphne transforms into a laurel tree to escape the god Apollo, drawn from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The work shows Apollo pursuing Daphne and grasping her as her body begins to change into bark and leaves. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Title variants Field ID: title-variants. Apollo and Daphne by Bernini, Galleria Borghese Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Dimensions Field ID: dimensions. Unknown Source IDs: none linked in the published record. ### Identity and catalogue Research section ID: catalogue. #### Catalogue identity Claim ID: archive-66af1e5863a1bed2bb5d. Evidence: documented. The object is catalogued as Apollo and Daphne, a marble group attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini and recorded in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. The same source lists the work's creator as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and identifies the mythological subject of the file as Apollo and Daphne, so the title, the authorship attribution, the medium, and the Roman location are established together rather than separately: they are the identifying frame within which any further description of the sculpture has to be placed. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Title and description; Title; Structured data, depicts Claim ID: archive-4e65f5e10e8add53b1a9. Evidence: documented. Within the wider history of art, the work is classified as a Baroque sculpture, a period designation that situates the group in a particular stylistic moment rather than adding a new factual detail about its making. The catalogue therefore carries two kinds of statement at once: the object-level facts of title, maker, material, and location, and a period label that belongs to art-historical classification. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description; Title and description Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-1. Evidence: identity. The sculpture is titled Apollo and Daphne and is by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, located in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-2. Evidence: identity. The Commons file depicts Apollo and Daphne, the mythological subject of the sculpture. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-3. Evidence: identity. The sculpture was created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] ### Historical context Research section ID: context. #### The object and its documentation Claim ID: F8. Evidence: documented. Apollo and Daphne, the marble group attributed in the supplied documentation to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is a Baroque work. The Commons record describes it as a marble group showing Apollo and Daphne, carved by Bernini in the Baroque period, and separately confirms that the sculpture is carved from marble and was created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy, and it is this institutional setting in Rome that the photographic record documents. Taken together, these units establish the object as a marble sculptural group, made by Bernini, of the Baroque period, and now in the Galleria Borghese; they do not, in themselves, establish the terms of the original commission, the date of carving, or the identity of the first patron. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description Claim ID: archive-d4cf7207bbf3946ecadb. Evidence: interpretation. What the supplied evidence permits is a secure identification of the work, its material, its authorial attribution and its present Roman setting, together with the Ovidian subject of the depicted moment. What it does not contain is the commissioning history: no patron, no contract, no date of execution, no payment record and no early provenance interval are supplied here. The commissioning circumstances of this sculpture therefore remain outside the evidence assembled in this account, and the identification of the group in the Galleria Borghese should not be used to infer the terms on which it was first made or the social world of its first owners. The sculpture matters within a larger history of Baroque sculpture as a marble group by Bernini in which a narrative transformation is the sculptural subject itself, but that larger significance is carried by the documented attribution, medium and setting rather than by any reconstructed patronage story. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description; Date and author Claim ID: legacy-reference-context-1. Evidence: historical_context. The sculpture is a Baroque work. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] ### Materials and technique Research section ID: materials. #### Documented materials and attribution Claim ID: archive-7fd128f5933ff12a91d9. Evidence: documented. The group of Apollo and Daphne is documented as a marble sculpture, carved in the Baroque period by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Both the identification of the subject and the attribution of the carving rest on the same descriptive record, which classifies the work as a marble group rather than as a single figure or a relief. That same record also names the material independently of the subject: the sculpture is carved from marble. Read together, these two details establish the basic material fact of the object, that its medium is stone, and the basic authorial fact, that Bernini is the carver credited with it. The material and the attribution are therefore not separate curiosities but the two anchors on which any further technical discussion depends. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description Claim ID: archive-7fd128f5933ff12a91d9-2. Evidence: documented. The mythological subject depicted is the moment of Daphne's transformation into a laurel tree, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, with her fingers sprouting leaves and her body becoming bark. Bernini's handling of this subject is described as making the softness of flesh and the hardness of bark coexist within a single material. That is a visual and material observation about the finished carving, not a record of pigment analysis, tool marks, workshop practice or stone provenance, and it should be weighed as such. It nonetheless bears directly on questions of technique, because it identifies the sculptural problem the work sets itself: two contrasting material qualities, one organic and yielding, one woody and rigid, are to be produced from one block of the same stone. The transformation is not merely narrated by the iconography but is carried by the carving itself. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description Claim ID: legacy-reference-materials-technique-1. Evidence: materials_technique. The sculpture is a marble group showing Apollo and Daphne, carved by Bernini in the Baroque period. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-materials-technique-2. Evidence: materials_technique. The sculpture is carved from marble. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] ### Reception and literature Research section ID: reception. #### Documentation and the Modern Image Claim ID: F3. Evidence: documented. The modern photographic record of Bernini's marble group is unusually specific about its own making. The image in the Commons file was taken on 15 November 2018 by the photographer Sonse and shows the sculpture in Rome, Italy, where it is housed in the Galleria Borghese. That documentation matters for reception because the work's visibility to a wide public now depends substantially on such open-access photographs: the file is published under an open-access status and carries the sculpture's title and author, so a viewer encountering the object first through reproduction receives the attribution to Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the identification of the subject along with the visual record. The photograph is therefore not merely an illustration but a dated, attributed act of reception, anchoring a 2018 viewing in a specific place and moment. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Date and author Claim ID: legacy-reference-reception-1. Evidence: reception. The photograph of the sculpture was taken on 15 November 2018 by Sonse, showing the work in Rome, Italy. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] ### Interpretations and debates Research section ID: interpretation. #### Subject and Attributed Reading Claim ID: F6. Evidence: interpretation. The single interpretation unit supplied for this sculpture is a description of its subject: the work depicts the moment Daphne transforms into a laurel tree, as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, with her fingers sprouting leaves and her body becoming bark. The unit is classified as an interpretation rather than a documented fact, and it is attached to the Commons file description; it therefore represents how the object is presented and read by those documenting it, not a maker's statement of intent. Read carefully, it contains two distinguishable claims: that the figure is Daphne, Apollo's pursued nymph, and that the specific instant shown is the metamorphosis itself, so that the leaves emerging at the fingers and the bark overtaking the body are the identifying features of the moment rather than incidental ornament. Nothing in the unit establishes which passage of the Metamorphoses was consulted, whether a patron or programme prescribed the subject, or how the maker understood it, and those questions cannot be answered from the evidence supplied. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description #### Limits of the Evidence Claim ID: archive-604f73d5ad07902490fa. Evidence: interpretation. What can be seen and what the evidence establishes therefore stand at different levels. The visible content, in the attributed reading, includes fingers sprouting leaves and a body becoming bark; that is the grounds on which the Ovidian moment is identified. What the evidence establishes is only that the work is presented as a Baroque sculpture depicting that moment, and that it was photographed in Rome in 2018. The interpretive synthesis that remains open, and that this account will not close, is the relationship between subject and medium: whether the coexistence of foliage and flesh in a single figure is better understood as fidelity to Ovid's narrative or as a problem of carving that the period's sculptors addressed through specific technical choices. The supplied units do not describe the marble, the tools, the carving method, or any comparison with other treatments of the same myth, so any claim that the transformation was realized through a particular technique would be an invention rather than a finding. The object matters here within a larger history of material culture because a metamorphosis poses an unusually direct question to a carver: one block must hold two states of being at once, and the attribution of this work as a Baroque depiction of that instant is the evidence we have for how it was understood to do so. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description; Date and author Claim ID: legacy-reference-interpretation-1. Evidence: interpretation. The sculpture depicts the moment Daphne transforms into a laurel tree, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, with her fingers sprouting leaves and her body becoming bark. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] ### Collection and display Research section ID: collection. #### The Object in the Galleria Borghese Claim ID: F2. Evidence: documented. The marble group known as Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy, a location documented in the Wikimedia Commons record of the work. That same record also serves as the available photographic documentation of the sculpture, a photograph taken in Rome on 15 November 2018 by Sonse, which shows the work as it stands in the Galleria Borghese. The Commons file therefore functions in two ways at once: it attests to the sculpture's current institutional setting and it supplies the visual record through which the object can be examined, identifying the subject as Apollo and Daphne and crediting the carving to Bernini as a Baroque marble group. The photograph's date and author are specific to the image rather than to the sculpture, and the record does not establish when the work entered the Galleria Borghese, how it was displayed earlier, or how it was installed at the time of the photograph, so the display history before and around 2018 remains unspecified by this evidence. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description Claim ID: legacy-reference-collection-1. Evidence: collection. The sculpture is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] ### Documented values and qualified estimates Research section ID: values. #### Recorded values Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance. Evidence: interpretation. The only monetary figure recorded for this sculpture in the supplied material is a working insurance estimate generated on 16 October 2026, expressed as a range of US$400 million to US$1 billion. The unit that carries this figure is explicit that it is a model-generated working range intended for manual review and not an official insurance value, an appraisal, an auction result, or a sale price. Its methodology is derived from identity rather than from market data: it begins from the confirmed identification of the work as Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, a Baroque marble sculpture group of 1622 to 1625 in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, and treats the work as a unique, irreplaceable masterpiece of the highest museum rank held in a major public collection with no realistic prospect of sale. Because no official insurance valuation, auction result, or documented acquisition price appears in the supplied excerpts, the range is deliberately framed very broadly for manual review, with the lower bound reflecting the extreme rarity and canonical status of a large-scale Bernini marble group and the upper bound allowing both for the absence of a market-testing precedent and for the non-market, institutional context in which the work sits. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance-2. Evidence: interpretation. The estimate's own qualifications matter as much as its numbers. It states that no comparable sales were used, because none are documented in the supplied sources, and that it does not rely on private insurance records, completed comparable sales, or any confidential market data. It further notes that the artwork is in a public institutional collection and that no actual transaction or official valuation is documented in the supplied sources, so that final insurance amounts must be set by qualified appraisers, insurers, and the institution. The provenance and physical facts on which the calculation rests are those recorded for the object: the photograph documents the marble group in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, taken on 15 November 2018 by Sonse, and the source describes the work as a Baroque marble group by Bernini showing Apollo and Daphne, depicting the moment Daphne transforms into a laurel tree as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, with her fingers sprouting leaves and her body becoming bark. Read together, the two units separate what the object is from what it might be worth: the identity, medium, period, location and mythological subject are documented, while the value figure is an admitted working construct whose breadth is a measure of missing market evidence rather than of uncertainty about the object. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-values-1. Evidence: calculated_insurance. Calculated working insurance estimate, not a sale price: Working insurance range: US$400M to US$1B Recorded date: Working calculation, generated 2026-10-16. Methodology: This broad working range is derived from the confirmed identity of the artwork as Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, a Baroque marble sculpture group of 1622-1625 in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. The calculation treats the work as a unique, irreplaceable masterpiece of the highest museum rank, held in a major public collection with no realistic prospect of sale. Because no official insurance valuation, auction result, or documented acquisition price is provided in the supplied excerpts, the range is framed very broadly for manual review. The lower bound reflects the extreme rarity and canonical status of a large-scale Bernini marble group, while the upper bound allows for the absence of a market-testing precedent and for the non-market, institutional context. No comparable sales were used, because none are documented in the supplied sources. Qualification: This is a model-generated working insurance range for manual review only. It is not an official insurance value, not an appraisal, not an auction result, and not a sale price. It does not rely on private insurance records, completed comparable sales, or any confidential market data. The artwork is in a public institutional collection, and no actual transaction or official valuation is documented in the supplied sources. Final insurance amounts must be set by qualified appraisers, insurers, and the institution. Source IDs: source-1. - [Sonse, 2018](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg) [source-1] ## Books for further reading Amazon links are paid links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ### The myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: love, agon, and the grotesque Mary E. Barnard, 1987. Duke University Press Scholarly study of the Apollo and Daphne myth from Ovid to Quevedo, with subjects including Apollo and Daphne in literature and classical mythology. Useful for the literary and iconographic tradition behind the sculpture's subject, though it is textual rather than a study of the Bernini marble itself. Bibliography source ID: book-ol2734809m. ISBN: 0822307014 [Find book on Amazon.co.uk](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=0822307014&tag=artifactarchi-21) Cover provenance: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2734809M ### Apollo and Daphne Antonia Barber, 1998. Frances Lincoln Childrens Books Recorded under subjects including Greek mythology in art, painting, and art and mythology, so it may treat artistic depictions of the Apollo and Daphne theme. Relevance is limited because the subject headings mention painting rather than sculpture, and the author is known for retellings. Bibliography source ID: book-ol7791339m. ISBN: 9780711211933 [Find book on Amazon.co.uk](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=9780711211933&tag=artifactarchi-21) Cover provenance: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7791339M ## Sources and literature ### [source-1] Wikimedia Commons: Apollo and Daphne Sonse (2018). Wikimedia Commons: Apollo and Daphne. Apollo and Daphne by Bernini, Galleria Borghese (45589932155).jpg. Wikimedia Commons. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg Publisher: Wikimedia Commons. Type: secondary. URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_by_Bernini,_Galleria_Borghese_(45589932155).jpg Authors / editors: Sonse. Publication year: 2018. Publication / journal: Apollo and Daphne by Bernini, Galleria Borghese (45589932155).jpg Language: en Consultation status: partially_consulted. Access status: open_access. Relevance: artwork. Archive annotation: Photograph of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne in the Galleria Borghese, taken 15 November 2018. Source for the sculpture's presence in the Galleria Borghese and its visual documentation. ### [book-ol2734809m] The myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: love, agon, and the grotesque Mary E. Barnard (1987). The myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: love, agon, and the grotesque. Duke University Press. ISBN: 0822307014. Available at: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2734809M Publisher: Duke University Press. Type: book. URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2734809M Authors / editors: Mary E. Barnard. Publication year: 1987. ISBN: 0822307014 Consultation status: not_yet_consulted. Archive annotation: Scholarly study of the Apollo and Daphne myth from Ovid to Quevedo, with subjects including Apollo and Daphne in literature and classical mythology. Useful for the literary and iconographic tradition behind the sculpture's subject, though it is textual rather than a study of the Bernini marble itself. ### [book-ol7791339m] Apollo and Daphne Antonia Barber (1998). Apollo and Daphne. Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. ISBN: 9780711211933. Available at: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7791339M Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. Type: book. URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7791339M Authors / editors: Antonia Barber. Publication year: 1998. ISBN: 9780711211933 Consultation status: not_yet_consulted. Archive annotation: Recorded under subjects including Greek mythology in art, painting, and art and mythology, so it may treat artistic depictions of the Apollo and Daphne theme. Relevance is limited because the subject headings mention painting rather than sculpture, and the author is known for retellings. ## Editorial note Published automatically by Artifact Archive. No human editorial review. ## Coverage and revisions Recorded scope: This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. Its citations identify the sources supporting each account. Scope updated on: 2026-10-16 Bibliography entries held: 3. Literature coverage is accumulating. Finding or cataloguing a publication does not mean it has been consulted. A missing consultation status is not recorded. The record does not claim that all literature has been found. 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