#laurel tree

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) "Apollo and Daphne" (1908) Pre-Raphaelite In the myth of Apollo and Daphne, she is a beautiful nymph who turns into a laurel tree in a bid to escape the affections of the god Apollo.

[huariqueje]

The Spreading Laurel Tree - Kurt Solmssen , 2004.

American, b. 1958 -

Oil on canvas, 56 x 70 in.

[antoniabishop]

different version of Daphne and the laurel tree

[hyacyntart]

The tree the sun couldn't make bloom.

[toothwalker]

berries on the cherry laurel, Cerasus laurocerasus Surrey, UK, September 2025

[catfindr]

[hanssloane]

Apollo and Daphne, 1622-1625

GIAN LORENZO BERNINI (1598 - 1680)

Carrara marble

Borghese Gallery, Rome

***

Faster than she, he allowed her no rest; his hands were

now close

to the fugitive's shoulders; his breath was ruffling the

hair on her neck

Her strength exhausted, the girl grew pale; then

overcome

by the effort of running, she saw Peneüs' waters before

her

'Help me, Father!' she pleaded. If rivers have power

over nature

mar the beauty which made me admired too well, by

changing

my form!' She had hardly ended her prayer when a

heavy numbness

came over her body; her soft white bosom was ringed

in a layer

of bark, her hair was turned into foliage, her arms into

branches

The feet that had run so nimbly were sunk into sluggish

roots

her head was confined in a treetop; and all that remained

was her beauty

Ovid, Metamorphoses

[rebeccasreveries]

daphne of thessaly aesthetic [laurel nymph]

greek myths masterlist

“many a one courted her; she hated all wooers; not able to endure, and quite unacquainted with man, and she traverses the solitary parts of the woods” ovid, metamorphoses

“but i’m in the trees, i’m in the breeze, my footsteps on the ground. you see my face in every place, but you can’t catch me now” olivia rodrigo, can’t catch me now