Apollo and Daphne is a baroque, life-sized marble sculpture by Italian Gian Lorenzo Bernini, housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. It was inspired by one of the stories included in Ovid's Metamorphoses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29
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