Plate with Apollo and Daphne

1540 (Renaissance)

25.4 cm 3.6 cm

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This plate depicts an episode from the Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE-17 CE) “Metamorphoses.” On the right, the sun god Apollo chases Daphne, a virtuous nymph and the daughter of the river-god Peneus. According to Ovid, Daphne was saved from Apollo’s advances at the last moment whe...

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Pannwitz [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 253]; De Somzée Collection, Brussels [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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