School of Fontainebleau's 'Diana the Huntress'.

            Copy - Oils on wood.
..........In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt.
.....She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Luna, and was an emblem of chastity.
.....Original painted in the 1550s by the ' School of Fontainebleau ', a group of artists in France, and is now in the Louvre - Paris.

..........Poem to Diana by John Pilkley.

The School of Fontainebleau has done you proud,
so elegantly upright, so unloud,
so carelessly immortal as a cloud
      floats everywhere at once.

Your stride has never known the strap of sandal,
sweeps onward past the eyes of dying scandal,
indifferent to covetous who handle
     low treasures of the earth.

The hound that charges straight beside your heel
enacts unspoken dictates of your will
and translates lofty motion into kill
     whatever turns and flees.

Your eyes ignore the pride of always knowing
wherever heel and hound are swiftly going
beyond the reach of birth and death and growing
     into sylvan silence.

Your overmastered prey the lonely stag
to chase. take aim, strike down and drag
beside a mountain stream or hanging crag
     is even I myself.

For I am Actaeon * who rebelled
against your law when I beheld
your immortality that loosely held
     the bow of life and death.

* Actaeon = In Greek mythology, the famous Theban hunter, who became the hunted,
    when he suffered the wrath of Artemis ( later his myth was attached to her Roman counterpart Diana ) who transformed him into a stag, and his own raging hounds killed him.
   

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