Diana And Actaeon Analysis

There has been a persistence of classical myths into the art and thought of Renaissance. This paper aims to discuss the relationship of the artistic and mythical representation of the story of Diana and Actaeon. The setting is a grotto in a dense forest, which was leafy and dark. Situated at the grotto is a pool and fountain. The goddess of hunt, Diana, together with her nymphs, flaunts themselves at the pool, naked. The nymphs are washing their goddess, Diana depicted in an undignified and defenseless pose, and she has her foot poised at the edge of the fountain. One of her nymphs is portrayed to be rubbing her right calf with a cloth. Into this immensely feminine and deeply intimate scene enters Actaeon, a prince of the house of Cadmus,

Not only because this us the side where her heart is located, but also it was less used, as in the case of right handed people, so it is less likely to be worn. This can be illustrated by the love lyrics of the poet Tasso, calling it the "soft side" while another poet and Venetian courtesan, Veronica Franco cites on a letter for her favorite lover that "my own beauty will be dedicated to making you happy, when you are closer to my left side". In titians masterpiece, he gave us an astonishing, whole, and uninterrupted view of Diana 's left side, with her left arm raised. without any doubt, this gives the viewers the best view of her body. While her right side is hidden from sight, and her right leg is dirty, being scrubbed by a servant and dimly lit compared to her well-turned left leg. Actaeon has feasted on Diana 's most beautiful part, the whole left side of her body, and he must die for

All of them are related to ways of seeing. After Actaeon 's awful end, the story of his aunt, Semele, follows. Semele caught the attention of Jupiter, and then they slept together. Jupiter liked Semele so much that he vowed to grant her anything she wishes for. She decided she sought after seeing him in all of his godly glory and stripped of his mortal cloak. He cannot deny her wish, although he knew where it would leasd to. Semele was blown to fragments by the mere sight of his godly body. Jupiter beat the baby growing in her belly out and seeded it into his own thigh. The child would grow up to be the great god of wine, Bacchus. Ovid then proceeds to Tiresias, the Theban seer who is blinded by Juno, but given second sight by Jupiter. Another Theban tale is that of Pentheus. He is a cousin of Actaeon. Pentheus spied on his mother while she was partaking in a consecrated, Bacchic rite. His mother was out of her mind in a Dionysiac ecstasy, and she thinks she has seen an animal and not her own son. She tore apart his limbs from his body. That is a double-edged wrongness in seeing or witnessing. The first is Pentheus looking at forbidden things, and his mother for not seeing straight him as he