Dish with Apollo and Daphne

1535-1545 (Renaissance)

27 cm 6 cm

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This dish depicts an episode from the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE-17 CE) “Metamorphoses” (Book I). Cupid, god of erotic love and shown pointing at Daphne with an arrow in the cloud on the upper right, tricks the god Apollo into falling in love with the nymph Daphne, dau...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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