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Diana in the Bath
Georg PenczLinkedCulture matchlcp-6cb349065bf6
- Date
- c. 1533
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 77511
In this intimately scaled print Georg Pencz depicted the story of Diana and Actaeon from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses . The hunter Actaeon stumbles upon Diana, Roman goddess of hunting and chastity, and her attendants bathing. Diana punishes Actaeon by splashing him with water from the pool, transforming him into a deer. In this version, Pencz showed Actaeon mid- transformation with a deer-like head and human body. In the background, between the heads of Diana and her attendant, you can see the fate of the doomed son of Aristaeus: he is chased down and ripped apart by his own hounds.
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- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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