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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Diana and Actaeon
Alternate Title:
Diana converte Atteone in cervo
Image View:
Detail, Diana (left) and her handmaidens
Creator:
Francesco Mosca (Italian sculptor, ca. 1546-1578)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via del Proconsolo 4; from the Francesco I de' Medici collection, 1587
GPS:
43.770423 11.257947
Date:
ca. 1554-1558 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
relief (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574; Diana (Roman deity)
Description:
Panel with extremely subtle formal changes of plane from bas-relief to relief; it depicts the moment Diana, surprised by Actaeon while at her bath, turns him into a stag. After having created the panel in Rome, Mosca returned to Florence and donated the work to Duke Cosimo I de 'Medici who greatly appreciated it and rewarded Mosca with the commission for the works in two chapels of the Cathedral of Pisa, executed from 1558-1578. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MOSCHINO-MB-DAA- A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Diana and Actaeon