Daniel Seiter (Vienna, 1647 – Turin, 1705) Diana and Orion Circa 1685 Oil on canvas, 174.5 x 155 cm Work exhibited at the exhibition Sfida al Barocco, Rome Turin Paris 1680 – 1750, held in Venaria Reale from May 30 to September 20, 2020, designed by the Fondazione 1563 per l'Arte e la Cultura and organized by the Consorzio delle Residenze Reali Sabaude. 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 has few figurative examples. The painter orchestrates the entire composition around the tragic moment in which the goddess, in a vain attempt to bring the handsome Orion back to life, directs the fatal dart at Asclepius. The dark sky under which the scene comes to life contrasts with the candid body of the hunter, managing to evoke the drama of a murder that occurred by mistake, the result of the deception wrought on Diana by her 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. For more info send us an email: galleria@giamblanco.com Follow us on Facebook