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Image permission and credit: National Gallery, London

By Antonio Del Pollaiuolo
Apollo and Daphne
Oil on panel
1470 circa - 1480 circa
Dimensions: 29.5 cm x 20 cm
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The god Apollo pursued the nymph Daphne. She prayed for rescue and was turned into a laurel tree as he touched her. The story appears in the 'Metamorphoses' of the classical Roman poet Ovid. Such pagan fables were popular subjects for the decoration of furniture in Florence.

The landscape, like that in the altarpiece of the 'Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian', is based on the Arno valley near Florence, and is likely to date from the same period.

27/03/2019

EB-J was very familiar with this painting and used the composition (reversed) for Phyllis and Demophoon.

William Waters
27/03/2019
Owner Dates Owned Further info. circa
Wynn (Wynne) Ellis 1876
National Gallery, London 1876 - Present NG928 Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Burne-Jones William Waters, Martin Harrison 1973
Illus fig. 136 p. 99


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