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Design for a fan featuring Apollo and Daphne in a rich frame
Mary Ighina Barbano
drawing
D4490
Unità di misura: mm; Altezza: 248; Larghezza: 485
matita nera-rossa
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).