Diana the Huntress, c. 1690, Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio), Italian, 1639-1709, 62 1/2 x 83 1/4 in. ( x cm) (canvas), Oil on canvas, Italy, 17th-18th century, The mythological goddess of the hunt, Diana, reclines in a forest setting with her hunting dogs, Syrius and Phocion, observing a hunt underway in the middle ground below. Diana (or Artemis, in Greek mythology) was revered as an inaccessible maiden, an avid huntress, and the patroness of wild animals, forests, and hills

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