Daniel Seiter (Vienna, 1647 – Turin, 1705)
Diana and Orion
Approximately 1685
Oil on canvas, cm 174.5 x 155
Work exhibited at the exhibition Challenge to the Baroque, Rome Turin Paris 1680 – 1750, held in Venaria Reale from May 30 to September 20, 2020, designed by the 1563 Foundation for Art and Culture and organized by the Consortium of Savoy Royal Residences.
Provenance: private collection of the Baglioni family
In the vigorous painting, the Viennese artist brings to the canvas the myth of Diana and Orion, a mythological episode that knows few figurative examples. The painter orchestrates the entire composition around the tragic moment in which the goddess, in a vain attempt to bring the beautiful Orion back to life, directs the fatal dart to Asclepius. The dark sky under which the scene comes alive contrasts with the candid body of the hunter, managing to evoke the drama of a murder that occurred by mistake, the result of deception set to Diana by the jealous brother Apollo. The painter, in this painting, renews his love for the theme, already addressed by him in Diana at the corpse of Orion, kept at the Louvre Museum, as well as in the tondo inserted in the vault of the Bedroom of Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy, inside the Royal Palace of Turin.
-Giamblanco Gallery.
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