Artemis1.0491_vonGleichen

OGCMA s.v. "Artemis"

Feodora von Gleichen, "Diana the Huntress," or (Diana Fountain), Hyde Park, London (Rose Garden near Hyde Park Corner), before 1906.

A full view of the Diana fountain in Green Park, London, with a man sitting on a bench in the background

The goddess' overt nudity is characteristic (or at least not uncommon) of Edwardian depictions. Especially after Saint-Gaudens' "Diana" used as weathervane atop New York City's Madison Square Garden (1891, 1895-1925), the virginal goddess appears in this state of undress. Perhaps this depiction empowers her more fully as a defender of chastity, a "personification of virtue triumphing over vice".

E.J. Clack's "Diana" is not far distant in Green Park.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.