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Apollo and Daphne, after Lorenzo Bernini’s Marble Group in the Galleria Borghese, Rome

Jean-Étienne Liotard1736

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Liotard has here copied another famous marble sculpture. As well as providing a landscape and stormy sky, he has added the river god Peneus, who changed the nymph into a laurel tree to prevent her being ravished by Apollo. Liotard’s attempts to animate marble sculptures
are an idiosyncratic contribution to the paragone, the long-running debate as to the relative superiority of painting and sculpture.

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  • Title: Apollo and Daphne, after Lorenzo Bernini’s Marble Group in the Galleria Borghese, Rome
  • Creator: Liotard, Jean-Etienne
  • Date Created: 1736
  • Physical Dimensions: papier
  • Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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