# Diana and Actaeon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CESARI, Giuseppe]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on copper, 50 x 69 cm ## Commentary Ovid describes at length \(Met. 3:138-253\) how the young prince Actaeon, hunting in the forest, stumbled accidentally upon the grotto where Diana and her companion were bathing. To punish him for the glimpse of divine nudity, the goddess turned him into a stag. He was pursued and torn to pieces by his own hounds. The painting depicts when Actaeon has sprouted antlers. He staggers backwards as his own dogs spring at him. The painting is signed below on stone, in front of Actaeon's leg: IOSEPH\(US\) ARPINA\(S\) F\(ECIT\). ## Related artworks - [Battle of Tullius Hostilius against the Veii]() - [Christ Taken Prisoner]() - [Diana and Actaeon \(detail\)]() - [Diana and Actaeon \(detail\)]() - [Judith with the Head of Holofernes]() - [Lamentation]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen and Anne]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts. Peter and Paul]() - [Passion scenes]() - [Perseus Rescuing Andromeda]() - [Portrait of a Pope]() - [Portrait of Prospero Farinaccio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()