Artemis Fresco

Artemis FrescoA print of an Artemis fresco in the tradition of the Roman wall paintings recovered from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Artemis Diana in Roman cult, goddess of the hunt, the moon, and the wilderness is rendered in her conventional Pompeiian attributes: short tunic, quiver at the shoulder, bow in hand, her hounds nearby. Artemis was one of the most popular female deities in Roman domestic painting. She appears both in narrative scenes punishing Actaeon,

The painting is after the famous 'Perseus with the Head of Medusa' bronze sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini

Whatever its date of casting

Pegasus was born from the blood of the gorgon Medusa at the moment Perseus severed her head — immortal

The bust type — bearded

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reducing the composition to the single most-discussed detail of the sculpture

Ajax and Odysseus both claimed the fallen hero's divine armour

piling architectural fantasy

Most of them survive only as Roman marble copies

the killing of Hector and the abuse of the corpse

The original torso is among the most studied ancient sculptures in the Western canon — admired by Michelangelo

the god of war — are one of the most-painted pairings in Roman domestic art