Pontormo’s Apollo and Daphne—painted in grisaille, a method of painting in grey monochrome, typically to imitate stone sculpture—is a great example of this tradition. Previously scholars knew about ...

Apollo breathes down Daphne’s neck like a greyhound nipping at the heels of a hare.” Each of these stories ends with a transformation of the pursued female; the male goes unpunished.

Apollo, pierced by Cupid’s arrow, pursues the nymph Daphne, who becomes a tree to escape him. Jupiter, king of the gods, violently assaults Io, whom he then turns into a cow.

200 x 150 cm. (78.7 x 59.1 in.) For the “LIVING GODS” series, Reinar Foreman was inspired by Antiquity. The painter seeks to reinterpret myths by updating them. Halfway between figurative art and ...