Gian Lorenzo Bernini captured myth and movement in marble with Apollo and Daphne. Learn the dramatic story behind one of the greatest sculptures of the Baroque era and the genius who created it. China ...

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In his sculpture of the mythological Daphne, who was transformed into a laurel tree by her father to elude the unwanted attentions of Apollo, Bernini showed Daphne's skin changing to bark, her toes ...

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