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Titolo dell'opera:
Design for a fan featuring Apollo and Daphne in a rich frame
Acquisizione:
Mary Ighina Barbano
Object Type:
drawing
Epoca:
Inventario:
D4490
Tecnica:
matita nera-rossa
Descrizione:
One of Domenico Piola's most elegant compositions, this unusually shaped design was intended for use in the creation of a fan. Ink sketch with Apollo and Daphne running in the centre. Daphne is turning into a laurel tree thanks to the intervention of her father Peneus. The scene is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Metamorphoses I 548).