This painting was probably commissioned by alfonso d'este and may allude to his love affair with the lady-in-waiting laura dianti, after the death of his wife, lucrezia borgia, in 1519. The painting was inspired by the story of apollo and daphne in ovid's metamorphoses: the god apollo is singing his love for daphne and interrupts his performance at the moment when the nymph is transformed into a laurel tree (allusion to laura) in the landscape on the left. Apollo accompanies his song on a viola da braccio, the instrument played by duke alfonso. Object Type: painting. Date: 1524. Dimensions: height: 1,194 cm (13 yd); width: 118 cm (46.4 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Galleria Borghese. Dossi, Dosso - Apollo - 1524
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