Apollo and Daphne 1622-1625 (Baroque) "Apollo and Daphne" is a life-size marble sculpture carved by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Baroque period, a period of artistic style, exaggerating motion and easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, enthusiasm and grandeur in works of art. ... "Apollo and Daphne" is fully made of white marble. Among the commonly available stones, only marble has a slight surface translucency like human skin giving a realistic effect. ... Sandpaper is used in the polishing process and emery, a stone harder than marble is used in the finishing pro...

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The Periclean Building Program "There was one measure above all which at once gave the greatest pleasure to the Athenians, adorned their city and created amazement among the rest of mankind, and which is today the sole testimony that the tales of the ancient power and glory of Greece are no mer...

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