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Diana and Actaeon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, finished in 1556-1559. It portrays the moment in which the goddess Diana meets Actaeon. It is on long-term loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, where it is displayed.
It is part of a series of seven famous canvasses, the "poesies", depicting mythological scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses painted for Philip II of Spain (after Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor had declined Titian's offer to paint them for...
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