The main modern scholars I consider are Joy Kenseth, Andrea Bolland, Genevieve Warwick, Alvàr Gonzàlez-Palacios, and Franco Mormando, whose writings deal specifically with the issue of the reception. I look at the reception according to a critical use of primary sources, such as diaries, biographies, and guides.
I provide research on the perception of the statue. This research project deals with the reception of the Apollo and Daphne, highlighting how viewers’ opinion has changed, while the statue itself has not. The main focus of this thesis is to understand the reasons for the shift from a positive to a negative public opinion from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. This change brought, from emphatic perception in seventeenth century, to a complete rejection by eighteenth century personalities, like Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), in telling of the apparently low style of Bernini’s sculpture. Yet, audiences spoke favorably of this statue in the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, people spoke negatively of the Apollo and Daphne, sculpted between 16 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).
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