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OGCMA s.v. "Artemis"

Jean François Millet, 1814-1875, "Diana Resting," c. 1845, oil on canvas, Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Millet engages themes of scopophilia, with reminiscence of Actaeon, luring the viewer in for a closer look at the partially exposed goddess who lurks demurely in the half-shadows of a woodland copse.

A woman in a white dress reclines on green grass in a dark, forested landscape, her arms raised above her head

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, 1400 – 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.