Diana

"Diana with stag" (silver, repoussé and parcel-gilt, antlers made from corals; height 32.5 cm); Matthäus Walbaum (or his circle), Augsburg, early seventeenth century. Residenz Treasury © Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung Known as "drinking games", such centrepieces were generally filled with wine, set in motion and emptied by the diner in front of whom they stopped. No trace of the customary wheels and clockwork are found in the present example. "Diana on a Stag" was a very popular motif for such... [Lire la suite]

Guercino, Diana the Huntress, 1658. Photo: Courtesy Fondazione Sorgente Gr FERRARA, ITALY.- The Pinacoteca di Cento Museum is exhibiting for the first time an important painting by Guercino, who was born in Cento, a very small town of the Emilia Romagna region. The painting known as "Diana the Huntress" portrays the delicate sensuality of a goddess coupled with her tender humanity. The painting is also known for its enlivening depiction of a greyhound twisting its neck. Diana the Huntress, a piece belonging to the Fondazione... [Lire la suite]

Joachim Fries, Clockwork drinking vessel with Diana mounted on a stag. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. Silver, cast, embossed, chased, engraved parcel-gilt, partial coloured cold-enamel decoration fully functional original spring-driven mechanism. height 34 cm, width 24,2 cm, depth 10,6 cm. Inv.-No. SI261. This sculpture is not only a masterpiece of the goldsmith’s art but also an ingenious object of stately display and courtly banqueting ceremonial: it belongs to a group of automata featuring Diana, goddess of the chase, the... [Lire la suite]

Titian (circa 1485/90 - 1576), Diana and Actaeon, circa 1556-1559 National Gallery of Scotland © The Art Fund 2009 | Images This work, with its pendant Diana and Callisto, is one of the most celebrated and admired paintings in the European tradition. It has influenced the work of generations of high-profile artists, from Velázquez and Rubens to Turner and Constable down to Lucian Freud today. The fable of Diana and Actaeon is recounted by Ovid where the young huntsman Actaeon unwittingly came upon Diana and her nymphs bathing... [Lire la suite]

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's is pleased to announce the sale of Antiquities on June 3, which will offer nearly 200 lots with a particularly strong selection of Roman marbles, including a handsome marble herm bust of Menander and a massive red marble labrum. Other highlights include fine examples of classical Greek vases, both Athenian and South Italian alongside Egyptian and Near Eastern art. A massive Roman red marble (cotanello antico) labrum, circa 2nd-3rd century A.D. (estimate: $300,000-500,000). Photo: Christie´s Images... [Lire la suite]

Diana and Actaeon, 1556-59, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), National Gallery of Scotland. Lent by the Duke of Sutherland 1945 EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery, London are delighted to announce that Titian’s Diana and Actaeon has been acquired for the nation from the Duke of Sutherland. The painting will be shared by the National Galleries of Scotland and National Gallery, London and will be displayed for five years at each institution in turn. The purchase of Titian’s 'Diana and Actaeon' brings... [Lire la suite]

The two paintings were almost sold in 1916 in a complex set of dealings between London’s National Gallery and Henry Clay Frick. The two Titians of Diana, Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto, both 1556-59, were nearly sold at the height of World War One, when the National Gallery in London and American collector Henry Clay Frick competed to buy them. Joseph Duveen, the key intermediary, told Frick that the Titians were the greatest paintings in the world. The price asked for the pair was £420,000, an enormous sum at the... [Lire la suite]

Carel De Moor (Leiden 1656 - 1738 Warmond). Diana sleeping after the hunt. 1698. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left: C De Moor Ft 1698. 158 x 145.8 cm. Estimation : 60 000 / 80 000 CHFProvenance: - Private collection, Lucerne, 1958.- Private collection, Zurich . Vente du Vendredi 19 septembre 2008. Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens. Koller - CH-8031 Zurich. Tel: + 41/44/445 63 63

Jan Brueghel the younger and Hendrik Van Balen (1601 Antwerp 1678) and (1575 Antwerp 1632)?. Diana and her nymphs watched by satyrs. Oil on copper. 27 x 39 cm. Estimation : 80 000 / 120 000 CHFExpertise : Dr. Klaus Ertz, Lingen, 6. October 2004. Vente du Vendredi 19 septembre 2008. Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens. Koller - CH-8031 Zurich. Tel: + 41/44/445 63 63

Diana and Callisto, 1556-59, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), National Gallery of Scotland. Lent by the Duke of Sutherland 1945 LONDON.- The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the National Gallery in London (NGL) are working together with the Duke of Sutherland to secure the long-term future of the Bridgewater loan of Old Master paintings. The Bridgewater Collection, currently on view at the NGS, is the most important private collection of Old Master paintings on loan to an institution in the UK and counts among the most... [Lire la suite]