Detail of the façade of the Galleria Borghese in Rome; above, detail of the Fontana dei Mascheroni e dei Tritoni in Villa Borghese; in the field, on a line, and on the bottom, round, the related inscriptions “REPUBBLICA” and “ITALIANA”; around, dot decorated frame.

The Galleria Borghese (Italian for 'Borghese Gallery') is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese Collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621). The building was constructed by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a country villa at the edge of Rome.

The Fontana dei Mascheroni e Tritoni in Villa Borghese dates back to 1909, but was assembled with materials from works formerly located in Piazza Navona, such as the basin, from the Roman period, the masks and tritons from the Renaissance period. Positioned in one of the many small squares of Villa Borghese, it sees concrete, marble and brick among its construction materials.

Daphne transforming in a laurel tree: detail of the sculpture Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; round, left to right, the inscription “FLORA NELL’ARTE”; in the right field the value “20 EURO”, in the left one, the year of issue “2014”; bottom, signature of the designer “A. MASINI”; around, dot decorated frame.

Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the work depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne (Phoebus and Daphne) in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Daphne, a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.

There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative, found in Greco-Roman mythology, is that due to a curse made by the fierce wrath of the god Cupid, son of Venus, on the god Apollo (Phoebus), she became the unwilling object of the infatuation of Apollo, who chased her against her wishes. Just before being kissed by him, Daphne invoked her river god father, who transformed her into a laurel tree, thus foiling Apollo.