Diana of Versailles

Diana of VersaillesA black and white print of the Diana of Versailles (Diane chasseresse) the most famous surviving statue of Artemis the Huntress, now in the Louvre. The marble is a Roman copy of the 1st or 2nd century AD, taken from a lost bronze attributed to the Athenian sculptor Leochares around 325 BC. Artemis strides forward with a hound at her side, her right hand reaching back over her shoulder for an arrow from her quiver. She is goddess of the hunt, of the

The story comes from Apuleius' Metamorphoses: Psyche

The subject is rare in that the moral of the struggle — life on the earth vs

son of the sea-nymph Thetis and the mortal Peleus

A print of Hellas — the classical personification of Greece

A minimalist typographic print of the opening line of Homer's Iliad

is caught when the wood snaps shut on him

The Hercules-and-lion-skin became his defining attribute

tension — all cut from a single block of white marble

Poisoned by the Hydra-tainted tunic his wife Deianira sent him in the belief it was a love charm

almost androgynous youth crowned with vine leaves

is the defender of Troy

A black and white print of Guillaume Geefs' Le génie du mal (1848) — "The Genius of Evil