Luz

Luz
Light

Prov.29:18
 "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."

Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the work depicts the climax of the story of Daphne and Phoebus in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque

Italian Baroque painter and sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini transformed poetry into art in his famous sculpture, Apollo and Daphne. Famous for its intricacy, Apollo and Daphne is just one amongst the notable works of Bernini. The sculpture is largely based on Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” that depicts the love story of Apollo, who was the God of healing and the sun, and Daphne, a river nymph.  Fate had reckoned a cupid’s desire to pitch two arrows, but only one was bound to love and the other would bear in apathy. Apollo eventually fell in love with Daphne, who was then entailed to resist anyone who attempts to go after her.  And so Apollo was in an endless chase of Daphne’s heart that favors only to break loose. He was eternally charmed. Longing for the beautiful maiden, he followed her everywhere;

"Prince Mark Spitz"

Inveraray Castle and Garden, Scotland.

Chess: "Luz" "Light"