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Diana and Actaeon ( Titian ) | Diana and Actaeon, Titian, 1556 – 1559, a classic history painting, showing a dramatic moment in a mythological story, with elements of figure painting, landscape painting and still-life.
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Actaeon Surprising Diana ( Artemis ) in the bath, Titian, 1556-59, for Philip II of Spain | Philip II ( National Gallery of Scotland ).
Most depictions of Diana in art featured the stories of Diana and Actaeon, or Callisto, or depicted her resting after hunting.
* Titian, Venus Anadyomene, Diana and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, and The Three Ages of Man
Diana and Actaeon ( Titian ) | Diana and Actaeon by Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.
In 2008 he sold Titian's Diana and Actaeon to the National Gallery of Scotland and National Gallery in London for £ 50m.
Among these are the well-known copperplates of " St Jerome in the Desert ", the " Magdalen ", " Prometheus ", " Diana and Actaeon ", and " Diana and Calisto ".
Among the chief works of his early maturity are Susanna and the Elders and Venus Anadyomene ( both 1839 ), Diana Surprised by Actaeon ( 1840 ), Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids ( 1840 ), and The Toilette of Esther ( 1841 ), all of which reveal a very personal ideal in depicting the female nude.
He was the leading member of the syndicate which purchased and partly resold the famous Orleans Collection of old master paintings in 1798 ( including Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto ), and most of his purchases are still held by the Egerton family.
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Among his 300 paintings by moderns, most notably, he owned Leonardo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, The Family of the Virgin by Andrea del Sarto, the two famous Bacchanales of Nicolas Poussin, as well as paintings by Veronese and Titian, and Diana at the Bath by Rubens, for which he was so glad to pay the artist's heirs 3, 000 écus, that he made a gift to Rubens ' widow of a diamond-encrusted watch.
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In Jupiter ( mythology ) | Jupiter and Callisto by François Boucher, Zeus takes the form of Artemis / Diana ( mythology ) | Diana ( Pushkin Museum, Moscow )
File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 020. jpg | Diana the Huntress, 1867, The National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
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File: Boucher Diane sortant du bain Louvre 2712. jpg | François Boucher, Diana Leaving the Bath, 1742
Diana ( mythology ) | Diana holds the dying Pope, and John Milton, Edmund Spenser, and Geoffrey Chaucer prepare to welcome him to heaven.
Image: Apollon og Diana straffer Niobe ved at dræbe hendes børn. jpg | 1591 painting by Abraham Bloemaert
Portrait of Diane de Poitiers as Diana goddess of the hunt on display in the bedroom of Francis I of France | Francis I at the Château de Chenonceau.
Unity Mitford's grave ( centre ), between sisters ' Nancy Mitford | Nancy ( left ) & Diana Mitford | Diana ( right ).
Diana ( mythology ) | Diana sculpture in the Louvre: note use of skirt, tree stump, and stag for support of body and lower arm and the pinning of the upper arm to the arrows in the quiver, forming several closed loops that are thus stronger
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* 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.
* 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
* 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
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