Minneapolis Institute of Art

Diana as Goddess of the Hunt

Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem

Date

1607

Medium

Oil on panel

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

This depiction of the goddess Diana as huntress dating from 1607 is a paragon of proud feminine beauty demonstrating the artist’s command of the visual language of Mannerism as practiced in the Dutch Republic. The realistic depiction of the crescent-moon tiara, jewelry and spear keeps the artificial pose of the body within the limits of the natural. Artificial positions of the body were created deliberately to emphasize compositional tension. The relationship between the head appearing almost frontally and the body twisting sideways has been rendered in a visually satisfying way, even though this has little in common with any anatomical reality. Netherlands, Europe

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