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The Diana of Versailles in the Louvre Galerie des Caryatides that was designed for it. The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (French: Artémis, déesse de la chasse) is a slightly over-lifesize [1] marble statue of the Roman goddess Diana (Greek: Artemis) with a deer. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. [2]
Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise. If she was shown accompanied by a deer, as in the Diana of Versailles, this is because Diana was the patroness of hunting. The deer may also offer a covert reference to the myth of Acteon (or Actaeon), who saw her bathing naked. Diana transformed Acteon into a stag and set his ...
The sculptor and the princes did not want her to look isolated if she was alone.
Diana of Versailles. Leochares worked at the construction of the Mausoleum of Mausolos at Halicarnassus, one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World".The Diana of Versailles is a Roman copy of his original (c. 325 BC).
The most coveted item was "Diana of Versailles," a two-foot-tall bronze statue from Titanic's first-class lounge, he said. The statue had last been photographed in 1986, and the odds of finding it ...
As the royal family prepares for Princess Diana’s statue unveiling , they aren’t taking any—we repeat, any—chances in terms of...
Károly Kerényi notes in this context that the name Dione resembles the Latin name Diana, and is a feminine form of the name Zeus (cf Latin deus, god), hence meaning "goddess of the bright sky". [3] This association does not prevent her, however, from being worshipped along with Zeus as a deity of springs, making her a water-goddess. [3]
Diana (mythology) Roman goddess of hunting and the wild. Diana [lower-alpha 1] is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon.