 Between 1618 and 1625 Bernini was commissioned to undertake various sculptural work for the villa of one of his patrons, Cardinal Scipione Borghese.In 1623 – only yet 24 years old – he was working on the sculpture of "Apollo and Daphne", when, for unknown reasons, he abandoned this project to start work on the "David".According to records of payment, Bernini had started on the sculpture by mid–1623, and his contemporary biographer, Filippo Baldinucci, states that he finished it in seven months.