Callisto1.0022_Titian

Callisto1.0022_Titian

National Gallery website
OGCMA s.v. "Callisto"
Ovid Met. 2.409-531

Vecellio Tiziano (Titian), "Diana and Callisto," 1556-59, British National Gallery (formerly in the Scottish National Gallery on loan from the Duke of Sutherland); [several copies and versions exist]

BBC online news announced the acquisition on 2 March 2012, a purchase for £45 million ($71 m) from the Scottish National Gallery.

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School (London, 1957), 184.

Kathleen Wall, The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: initiation and rape in literature (Montreal, 1988).

Mythological scene of Diana and Callisto, with numerous nude and semi-nude figures bathing and reacting to Diana.

Diana notices that something about Callisto has changed, and the exposed nymph swoons.

National Gallery: Titian: love desire death (2020)

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.