Diana and Actaeon
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A detailed, stylized depiction of the classical myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. On the left, the goddess Diana and her nymphs are startled while bathing in a structured, rectangular stone pool. On the right, the hunter Actaeon is captured mid-transformation, his human body topped with the head and antlers of a stag. A hunting dog stands at his feet, foreshadowing his tragic fate. The Swedish miniaturist Andreas von Behn utilizes delicate, precise brushwork and a soft palette of pale blues, greens, and flesh tones to render the figures and the idyllic, rolling landscape behind them, resulting in a highly decorative, theatrical composition.