Diana as Goddess of the Hunt, 1607
Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlemexpand_more
Oil on panelexpand_more
The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund and the Walter H. and Valborg P. Ude Memorial Fundexpand_more 2014.72
On View in Gallery 311expand_more
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.
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- Title
- Diana as Goddess of the Hunt
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- Artist
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- 2014.72
- Curator Approved
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