Apollo and Marpessa

This relief depicts how the god Apollo catches the beautiful mortal Marpessa. The graceful gesture of her hand reaching behind her head to pull the drapery over her body has apollo's forward movement. Her drapery is perfectly balanced by his billowing cloak. In the background, a delicately carved sprig of ivy falls over the outline of a column. Flaxman wrote that he wanted to 'convert the beauty and grace of ancient poetry' into sculpture 'without the intrusion of useless, impertinent or trivial objects'.这件浮雕（relief）刻画了太阳神阿波罗捕获美貌凡女玛珀萨的场景。她抬手向后抚过头顶、将衣袍覆于身侧的优雅姿态，与阿波罗向前突进的动作相得益彰。她身上的衣袍与他翻卷飞扬的斗篷形成了绝妙的视觉平衡。 背景处，一根雕刻精巧的常春藤枝蔓顺着柱体轮廓自然垂落。弗拉克斯曼（Flaxman）曾写道，他希望将"古典诗歌的美感与雅致"融入雕塑创作，"摒弃一切冗余、突兀或琐碎的物象"。