Diana with Actaeon, Callisto and Nymphs. Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto is a 1634 painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
It is now on show in the Salm-Salm princely collection in the Wasserburg Anholt in Anholt, Germany. It shows two episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, in both of which someone is punished by the goddess Diana for a sexual offence.
On the left, Actaeon is punished for seeing the goddess naked by being turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds. On the right, Diana's other nymphs are tearing off Callisto's clothing to reveal how she has broken her vow of chastity and is now carrying Jupiter's child-Diana expels her from her court and she later gives birth to Arcas before being turned into a bear by Juno, whom Arcas almost kills whilst hunting.
Unusually, the painting also includes an image of an elderly couple unrelated to either of the two stories and a middle-aged nymph. W. Busch: Das keusche und das unkeusche Sehen, Rembrandts Diana, Aktäon und Kallisto, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 52, München 1989, S. 257-277.
S. Grohé: Rembrandts mythologische Historien, Köln 1996, S. 195-223.
It is now on show in the Salm-Salm princely collection in the Wasserburg Anholt in Anholt, Germany. It shows two episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, in both of which someone is punished by the goddess Diana for a sexual offence.
On the left, Actaeon is punished for seeing the goddess naked by being turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds. On the right, Diana's other nymphs are tearing off Callisto's clothing to reveal how she has broken her vow of chastity and is now carrying Jupiter's child-Diana expels her from her court and she later gives birth to Arcas before being turned into a bear by Juno, whom Arcas almost kills whilst hunting.
Unusually, the painting also includes an image of an elderly couple unrelated to either of the two stories and a middle-aged nymph. W. Busch: Das keusche und das unkeusche Sehen, Rembrandts Diana, Aktäon und Kallisto, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 52, München 1989, S. 257-277.
S. Grohé: Rembrandts mythologische Historien, Köln 1996, S. 195-223.
Wikipedia ...