Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized
Baroque marble sculpture by the Italian artist
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, created between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the
Galleria Borghese in Rome as part of the
Borghese Collection, the work depicts the climax of the story of
Apollo and Daphne in
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Apollo clutches Daphne's hip, pursuing her as she flees from him. Apollo wears a laurel crown, and Daphne is portrayed halfway through her metamorphosis from human form into the
laurel tree, with her arms already transforming into its branches as she flees and calls to her father to save her from Apollo.