In this paper, we will examine Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne. Bernini created Apollo and Daphne over a three-year period, with some interruptions, beginning in the summer of 1622, when he was twenty-three years old. It was Commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, and was the third in a series of life-size marble sculptures he ordered from Bernini to adorn his villa outside the Porta Pinciana, the others being the Aeneas and Anchises (1618-19), the Pluto and Proserpina of 1621-22, and the David (1623-24). The group's delivery to the Villa Borghese in the fall of 1625 completed this series of statues. In this paper, we will examine Benini, the time in which Bernini created Apollo and Daphne. We will also look deeply and critically at the work of art itself. Let us now take a brief look at the period in which Apollo and Daphne was created.
