The choice of the name “Artgender” derives from the consideration for which the brand that identifies a particular company that operates in the sectors of event planning, publishing and communication has never been used; for us art is a real type of human being, that is, who is deeper. Does not exclude anyone but renames a category, composed of very different people within… elsewhere I think, origin and direction; but, united by a single factor: the artistic one. Anyone can be or feel like an artist as long as he is concerned with producing or simply approaching any form of expression. Our identity is necessary, in things, in people, in words, in ways… that teaching contributes to formation ‘individual evolution.

Apollo and Daphne

Apollo and Daphne,
Gian Lorenzo #Bernini, 1622-1625
«Those who love chasing the joys of fleeting beauty
fills hands with leaves and picks bitter berries »

☞ Do you know…

‣ These above are the verses of Maffeo Barberini, then pope, which were placed at the base of the #sculpture to give the pagan subject a Christian moral meaning and thus justify its placement in Villa Borghese

‣ The scene depicted is taken from Ovid’s #Metamorphosis and tells about Apollo’s passionate love towards the nymph Daphne who, on the contrary, does not correspond it. Both characters experience distorted feelings because of the arrows fired by the #Cupid God: one to give birth to love, the other to drain it. Therefore Daphne is so frightened and asks her father Peneo, God of the river, to be transformed so as to escape Apollo.
Thus she becomes a #laurel tree that will remain forever sacred to the rejected God of the Sun

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⇒ Date: 1622–1625

⇒ Material: Marble

⇒ Dimensions: 243 cm (96 in)

Site: Galleria Borghese, Rome

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