Apolo and Dafne. Bernini.

*Title: Apolo and Dafne.
*Author: Bernini.
*Year: 1622-1625.
*Style: Barroque
*Tecnique: Sculpted in marble.
*Laction: Borghese Gallery, Rome.
*General description: In this sculpture looks like Dafne it is becoming tree slowly because Dafne had launched an arrow whose effect was the rejection of love, then Apolo saw one day Dafne and this was hurt of love and lunged for her, but as Dafne fled suffered the contrary effect until exhausted sought help from his father, who was the Peneus river , which determined Dafne turning into a laurel , and when Apolo reached Daphne , this was already in the transformation . And it is what you see in the sculpture , as Dafne becomes gradually laurel to escape the love of Apolo.

This piece of architecture is called Apolo and Dafne , which is made ​​by Bernini , made in the seventeenth century, which holds its style is Baroque art.

This sculpture is a standing figure and consists of a high relief in some parts more than others, as in the elbow, the armpit... 

The technical means used is typically classical marble, with a highly polished surface on the face or skin, thus providing a lifelike anatomies, and more rugged in others, especially in the Dafne feet, which are rooted in the soil or in hands, becoming laurel.

The volumes that make up the sculpture is conical and irregular, in addition, Bernini uses a diagonal which brings dynamism and instability to the figures and uses in addition various curved lines, as the two parallel which form the bodies of the characters or the arms, thus accentuating the Baroque drama of the work in addition, it is free, individual and bulk round, as it can be seen from different points of view and creates movement by the Viewer. Bernini has moulded this sculpture, so you have a sense of the dramatic, sliding on the more polished surfaces and softening them and in the bodies of Apollo and Dafne you schedule create a chiaroscuro in more rough surfaces like hair.

The composition of this sculpture is open, that is designed to be seen from different points of view, and is clearly asymmetrical and dynamic by the expressions on the faces of Aplo and Daphne.

The function of this sculpture is didactic. The theme is the mythology, Since it represents Apolo, one of the major Olympic Greco-Roman deities, chasing after the nymph Daphne, who tries to escape and, after invoking his father, is transformed into a laurel so that God can not take her as wife.

This sculpture is idealized, with a classical canon on anatomies that makes them more slender, and a sensual and delicate beauty in the face of the nymph and the expressions, we can see the contrast between the horror of Dafne and the charm of the face of Apolo, thus highlighting the narrative, dramatic and theatrical character of the work.

This work of art is important because it is one of the very famous baroque sculptures and the features are very striking, besides the emotions this very named above all in the face of Dafne. Other artists of the Baroque art were Pedro de Mena with "Magdalene penitent", Gregorio Fernández with "Piety"...

Earlier influences were the subject, the mythology that was a subject of the Renaissance and the following influences were at the beginning of the Baroque.

This sculpture has seemed very nice and very emotional by the faces of Apollo and Daphne, also worked in marble is very nice and as it uses the technique of polishing in places like the car to make it look skin is impressive.