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Portrait as an allegory.

In the form of Diana the huntress. XVI-XVII century

Early European artists paint a portrait of their contemporaries as an allegory.
Often, artists put the faces of their customers on the images of Christian saints.
Such portraits began to be called donor portraits. For many years allegorical portraits
remained popular because they made it possible to depict in plastic forms
lines and colors of a living face and at the same time show the ideological and artistic
image interpretation.

Lady as Diana

Diana, in Roman mythology, the goddess of nature and hunting, was considered the personification of the moon, as
her brother Apollo was identified with the sun in late Roman antiquity. Diana yet
accompanied by the epithet "goddess of three roads", interpreted as a sign of the triple power of Diana:
in heaven, on earth and underground. The goddess was also known as the patroness of those captured by Rome.
Latins, plebeians and slaves.

Jan Mytens (Dutch artist, 1614-1670)
Lady as Diana

The anniversary of the foundation of the temple of Diana on the Aventina, one of the seven Roman hills, was considered
their festival, which made the goddess popular among the lower classes. with this temple
there is a legend about an extraordinary cow: it was predicted that the one who brings it
as a sacrifice to the goddess in the sanctuary on the Aventine hill, will provide his city with power over the whole
Italy.
When King Servius Tullius found out about the prediction, he took possession of the cow by cunning, brought
animal as a sacrifice to Diana and adorned the temple with its horns.

1550 Meister der Schule von Fontainebleau
Diana the Huntress.

This young Diana carries a bow and quiver and travels with her dog.
A few pieces of fabric for clothes was enough for her.

Diana was identified with the Greek Artemis and the goddess of darkness and sorcery Hekate.
The myth of the unfortunate hunter Actaeon is associated with Diana. A young man who saw a bathing
beautiful goddess, Diana-Artemis in anger turned into a deer, which was torn to pieces
own dogs.

1590 Ambroise Dubois (Flemish-born French artist, 1542-43-1614-15)

Gabriel d "Estre in the form of Diana the Huntress with her faithful hunting dogs,
Syrius and Phocion. She has everything for hunting - dogs, bow, quiver, hunting horn
and the crescent on the head in the hair personifies the moon. And in the distance, deer graze in the meadow.

Artists often depict Diana in a classic jacket and sandals. Usually on
the paintings contain a hunting horn, a bow and a quiver with arrows. many paintings
marked by the presence of dogs and friendly deer. Diana is usually portrayed
beautiful and young. Often the paintings show a crescent-shaped hair ornament.

1630 Claude Deruet (French artist, 1588-1660)
Marie de Rohan.

The Duchess de Chevreuse as Diana the Huntress. She has dogs, a bow and a quiver, a hunting horn,
crescent in hair.

1635 Claude Deruet (French artist, 1588-1660) or Charles Beaubrun (Charles Bobrun)
(French artist, 1604-1692)

Portrait of a lady, in the image of Diana. She has a quiver behind her back and her hair is adorned with a crescent moon.

A young lady - Diana with a hunting spear in her hands and in rather impractical shoes.
The slit on the dress, too, seems to be also not needed for a successful hunt.

1640s Christina, Queen of Sweden Alexandra Maria Vasa (1626-1689)

Diana with a hunting spear.

1640 Willem van Honthorst (Dutch artist, 1594-1666)

Henriette von Nassau as Diana with her faithful hunting dogs, Syrius
and Fokion. In her hands she has a bow, a quiver with arrows, but in her hair there are feathers.

1635 artist

A Young Lady As Diana The Huntress

1640s Ferdinand Bol (Dutch artist, 1616-1680)

Portrait of a woman - Diana. She has a bow and a quiver.

1640-50s Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Cerrini (Italian artist, 1609-1681)

Christina, Queen Alexandra Maria Vasa of Sweden (1626-1689) as Diana.
Such a determined woman with a dog and a spear in her hand. And here is the crescent moon artist
hung in the sky above her head.

1650 Charles Beaubrun (Charles Bobrun) (French artist, 1604-1692)

Portrait of a lady, Diana. She has a dog and a bow.

But this lady with a tiny dog, maybe also a hunter, and a quiver behind her back.

1654 Justus van Egmont (Dutch painter, 1601-1674)

Marie-Anne Mancini - Diana the Huntress. She also has feathers in her hair and a bow in her hand
with an arrow. Shoot to see she just went out into the garden.

1661 Abraham Wuchters Christina

Queen Alexandra Maria Vasa of Sweden (1626-1689)
Like Diana holding an arrow in her hand.

1666 Giovanni Maria Morandi (Italian painter, 1622-1717)

Claudia Felicitas Austria as Diana. She has a sickle in her hair, carries in her hands
a hunting spear and a dog follows.

1667 Claude Lefebvre (French painter, 1633-1675)

Louise de La Vallière as Diana. The owner of a bow and a quiver of arrows,
as well as the faithful hunting dogs, Syrius and Focion.

1674 Jacob Huysmans (Flemish artist, c 1633-1696) Portrait of a Lady as Diana.

She has dogs, and a bow, and a quiver, and a hunting spear. There are feathers in the hair.

1670s-90s Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio) (Italian artist, 1639-1709)

Diana the Huntress with her hunting dogs, Syrius and Fokion.
Her bow and quiver are on the ground.

1680s Jacob Huysmans (Flemish artist, c 1633-1696)

Elizabeth Cornwallis (d.1708), Mrs. Edward Allen, Diana the Huntress with her
faithful hunting dogs, Syrius and Focion. She has a hunting spear
decoration made of animal skin, feathers in hair.

1688 Francois de Troy Lady Mary Herbert (1659-1744-1745)

Viscountess Montagu, formerly the Rt Hon Lady Richard Molyneux and later Lady
Maxwell as Diana. She's got a sickle in her hair, a dog, and a costume decorated
animal skin.