defending this sculpture's piety reads "Those who love to pursue fleeting forms of pleasure, in the end only find leaves and bitter berries in their hands" and was composed by Maffeo Barberini.
A moralizing epitaph drawing from its author's earlier Poemata is carved into the base of this sculpture. That couplet defending this sculpture's piety reads "Those who love to pursue fleeting forms of pleasure, in the end only find leaves and bitter berries in their hands" and was composed by Maffeo Barberini. This sculpture was commissioned to replace Pluto and Proserpina, which had been regifted to Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi by Scipione Borghese. This sculpture of a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses depicts bark creeping up the legs of the female character as her fingertips transform into laurel leaves. For 10 points, name this marble Bernini sculpture of the lovestruck god of light and poetry pursuing the title nymph.
A moralizing epitaph drawing from its author's earlier Poemata is carved into the base of this sculpture.
Apollo and Daphne