Apollo and Daphne is a sculpture by GianLorenzo Bernini, carved between 1622 and 1625, and exhibited inside the Galleria Borghese in Rome. This is the last in a series of sculptures made by the young Bernini for his patron, Cardinal Scipione Borghese.It depicts the culmination of the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid'sMetamorphoses. Video by: Roberto Celestri | Luxury Home Design

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“Dolatian’s ceramic sculptures in Heavenly Bodies invoke Sumerian and Babylonian depictions of animals such as lions, bulls, birds and chimeras such as gryphons. He observes that these animals shifted forms and meanings as they were passed from one civilisation to the next – indeed, Inanna herself also became Ishtar for the Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians before possibly influencing the Greek goddess Aphrodite, with all her own reincarnations down the centuries. For Dolatian, this evinces t

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