ArtemisANCIENT_Versailles

Louvre website
Ovid Met. 3.138 ff.

Diana of Versailles, Louvre no. MR 152

It is intriguing to think of this same sculpture merged into the sacrifice of Iphigenia, as conceived at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek (click here).

Full-length marble statue of Artemis with a quiver on her back and a deer next to her, in a museum hall

Artemis (Diana), the goddess of the hunt
Tunic is girt up for easier movement
Crescent headdress
Control over wildlife
1^st or 2^nd century AD Roman copy of a 4^th-century Greek original—thought by some to be by Leochares, like the Belvedere Apollo. Replicas found at Imperial-age sites in Leptis Magna and Antalya.
Restored in 1602, having been acquired by French king Henri II in 1556, a gift from Pope Paul IV. Louis XIV moved it to Versailles for a while (thus its name) but it was reacquisitioned for the French State in the Revolution.

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 forThe 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.