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| Diana and Actaeon |
| Titian, 1556–1559 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 185 × 202 cm |
| National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh |
Diana and Actaeon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, finished in 1556-1559. It is housed in the National Gallery of Scotland of Edinburgh.
It is part of a series of seven famous canvasses depicting mythological scenes inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses and painted for Philip II of Spain. This picture portrays the moment in which the goddess Diana meets Actaeon.
The work remained in the Spanish royal collection until 1704, when King Philip V
donated it to the French ambassador. In 1798 it was bought by the Duke of Bridgewater: it still
belongs to that family, but from 1946 it is in the National Gallery of Edinburgh.
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