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Apollo and Daphne Painting

Christian Pertosa

Italy

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 23.6 W x 19.7 H x 0.6 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Mythology: when Phoebus (Apollo), fated by Cupid's love-exciting arrow, sees the maiden daughter of Peneus a river god, he is filled with wonder at her beauty and consumed by desire. But Daphne has been fated by Cupid's love-repelling arrow and denies the love of men. As the Nymph flees he relentlessly chases her—boasting, pleading, and promising everything. When her strength is finally spent she prays to her father Peneus: 'Destroy the beauty that has injured me, or change the body that destroys my life.' Before her prayer was ended, torpor seized on all her body, and a thin bark closed around her gentle bosom, and her hair became as moving leaves; her arms were changed to waving branches, and her active feet as clinging roots were fastened to the ground—her face was hidden with encircling leaves.

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Painting:

Oil on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

23.6 W x 19.7 H x 0.6 D in

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Christian Pertosa was born in 1968 in Rome, the city where he lives and works. Self-taught artist, studies art history at “Sapienza” Università di Roma, graphic design, workshop for oil painting and sculpture. His pathway and inspiration are from Mith of Er in the “Plato’s republic”, Rosso Fiorentino, Max Beckmann and from whole expressionism.

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