Apollo chasing Daphne who throws her arms up, in the background at right shows the moment she turns in a laurel, from The Story of Apollo and Daphne, 1530–60, Engraving, sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (18.1 x 24.4 cm) approximately, Prints, Engraved by Master of the Die (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1530–60), Designed by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Ancaiano 1481–1536 Rome), This print, the third in the series, depicts Apollo's vain pursuit. The verses at the bottom of the engraving describe, in a paraphrase of Ovid (Metamorphoses 1-30), how the wind further kindled Apollo's longing by lifting Daphne's garments to reveal her lovely limbs
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