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Which episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses is shown in Diana and Actaeon?
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Venus of Urbino by Titian, 1538; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
In the painting Diana and Actaeon, Titian depicts the moment from Ovid’s Metamorphoses when the hunter Actaeon accidentally stumbles upon the goddess Diana and her nymphs while they are bathing.1
This scene captures the instant before Diana punishes Actaeon for his intrusion by transforming him into a stag, an event that ultimately leads to his death at the hands of his own hounds.21