Diana with companions ( Dutch. Diana en haar Nimfen ) - a painting by the Dutch artist Jan Vermeer , executed, presumably, between 1655-1656 or 1653-1654. There is a name - " Diana and Nymphs ." The plot for the work is taken from the ancient Roman mythological goddess - Diana . The painting is kept at the Royal Museums of Mauritshuis in The Hague. [one]
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| Vermeer, Jan | ||
| Diana with her companions . 1655–1656 or 1653–1654 | ||
| niderl. Diana en haar nimfen | ||
| Canvas, oil. 98.5 × 105 cm | ||
| Mauritshuis , The Hague | ||
| ( inv. ) | ||
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Creation History
The painting "Diana with Companions" refers to the earliest period of the creation of Jan Vermeer. It is known that in 1653 he was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke , where for six years he continued his studies under the guidance of one of the famous artists of that time. Some researchers of the work of Jan Vermeer point out that in the film "Diana with Companions" the influence of Karel Fabricius or Rembrandt is traced. [2] In his painting “Diana and her companions”, the Dutch artist portrayed Diana in company with four companions on the edge of the forest. Compared to other artists who portrayed the goddess and her company during the “female bacchanalia”, Vermeer's interpretation is more chaste, with a minimum of bare parts of the female body. The manner of arranging the figures in the picture has references to the work of the Dutch artist - Van Loo and his version of the painting "Diana with Companions" (1650). Due to this, some experts are inclined to assume that both artists studied together while living in Amsterdam. [3]
The plot of the picture
The plot of Diana’s bathing with companions in the stream is quite popular in the works of artists of the Renaissance, Baroque, Mannerism. The story of how Prince Acteon , who was hunting in the forest, stumbled upon nymphs bathing in a stream led by Diana, was first mentioned in Ovid 's Metamorphoses . Girls help the goddess to take off her clothes, wash her legs. After the peeping youth was uncovered, Diana hid behind the nymphs, after spraying him with water from a stream, cursing him. Actaeon was turned into a deer, and it was torn by his own dogs, with whom he came to hunt. [four]
Notes
- ↑ Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel. - Princeton University Press, 2008 .-- 252 p. - ISBN 9780691127262 .
- ↑ Denis E. McGuinness. Materials, Techniques, Styles, and Practice Britannica's Practical Guide to the Arts Series. - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2016 .-- 128 p. - ISBN 9781680483635 .
- ↑ Laura J. Snyder. Eye of the Beholder - Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing. - Head of Zeus, 2015 .-- 576 p. - ISBN 9781784970239 .
- ↑ A. Azarov. Russian-English Encyclopedic Dictionary of Arts and Crafts in two volumes. - Reference edition Volume 1. - M: Flint, 2014. - S. 416. - 816 p. - ISBN 9785457649200 .