Apollo and Daphne Self-researched

Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Location: Galleria Borghese, Rome
Medium: Marble sculpture
Date: 1622–1625

A life-sized marble sculpture depicting the climax of the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the nymph Daphne escapes Apollo's advances by transforming into a laurel tree. Regarded as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque age.