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== Diana == == Diana ==
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-Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise. If she is accompanied by a deer, as in the ''[[Diana of Versailles]]'' (''illustration, above right'') this is because Diana was the patroness of hunting. The deer may also offer a covert reference to the myth of [[Actaeon|Acteon]] (or Actaeon), who saw her bathing naked. Diana transformed Acteon into a stag and set his own hunting dogs to kill him.+Diana's myth of [[Actaeon|Acteon]] (or Actaeon), who saw her bathing naked.
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-====In painting and sculpture====+
-Diana has been one of the most popular themes in art. Painters like [[Titian]], [[Peter Paul Rubens]], [[François Boucher]], [[Nicholas Poussin]] made use of her myth as a major theme. Most depictions of Diana in art featured the stories of [[Diana and Actaeon]], or [[Callisto (mythology)|Callisto]], or depicted her resting after hunting. Some famous work of arts with a Diana theme are :+
-*[[Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon]], [[Diana and Callisto]], and [[Death of Actaeon]] by Titian.+
-*''[[Diana and Callisto]]'', ''[[Diana Resting After Bath]]'', and ''[[Diana Getting Out of Bath]]'' by François Boucher.+
-*''[[Diana Bathing With Her Nymphs]]'' by [[Rembrandt]].+
-*''[[Diana and Endymion]]'' by Poussin.+
-*''[[Diana and Callisto]]'', ''[[Diana and Her Nymph Departing From Hunt]]'', ''[[Diana and Her Nymphs Surprised By A Faun]]'' by Rubens.+
-*''[[Diana and Endymion]]'' by Johann Micheal Rottmayr.+
-*The famous fountain at [[Palace of Caserta]], Italy, created by Paolo Persico, Brunelli, Pietro Solari, depicting Diana being surprised by Acteon.+
-*A sculpture by [[Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain]] can be seen at the Musée du Louvre.+
-*''[[Diana (Saint-Gaudens)|"Diana of the Tower"]]'' a copper statue by [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]] was created as the weather vane for the second [[Madison Square Garden (1890)|Madison Square Garden]] in 1893. It now is on display at the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]+
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-In Parma at the convent of San Paolo, Antonio Allegri da Correggio painted the chamber of the Abbess Giovanna Piacenza's apartment. He was commissioned in 1519 to paint the ceiling and mantel of the fireplace. On the mantel he painted an image of Diana riding in a chariot possibly pulled by a stag.+
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== Bathsheba at Her Bath == == Bathsheba at Her Bath ==

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The bathing woman[1] has been a popular theme in Western art since the Renaissance. The earliest pretexts include Bathsheba at Her Bath and Susanna and the elders.

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Diana

Diana

Diana's myth of Acteon (or Actaeon), who saw her bathing naked.

Bathsheba at Her Bath

Bathsheba at Her Bath

The story of David's seduction of Bathsheba is told that David, while walking on the roof of his house, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, taking a bath. He immediately desired her and later made her pregnant.

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. --King James bible

Susanna and the elders

Susanna and the elders

Susanna and the Elders is a biblical story. As the story of Susanna goes, a fair Hebrew wife is falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lusty elders secretly spy upon the lovely Susanna. The story was frequently painted from about 1500, not least because of the possibilities it offered for a prominent nude female. Some treatments emphasize the drama, others concentrate on the nude; a 19th century version by Francesco Hayez (National Gallery, London) has no elders visible at all.

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