BEZIEHUNG
im Künstler
im Museum
Apoll verfolgt Daphne
1616–1618
London, National Gallery, Treppenhaus 1 (Inventar-Nr. NG6287)
Apollo pursuing Daphne
The youthful Apollo is pursuing Daphne, a nymph with whom he has fallen in love. Here she shuns him and cries out for help to her father, the river god Peneus, who turns her into a laurel bush. Following this episode, Apollo took to wearing a laurel wreath and declared that triumphant Roman generals should do the same.
