A young woman leans over to caress the head of a young man lying on the ground with his eyes closed in this square painting. The woman has pale skin and the man has a more peachy complexion. The woman is in the center with her body angled to our right, on the far side of the young man so we see her from the knees up. The hand closest to us is lifted with fingers spread, and she gently touches his hair with the other. A blond braid wraps over her forehead and another is plaited across the back of her head, which is topped by a crescent moon. Her ivory-white chemise exposes a bare shoulder and…
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Diana and Endymion

Luca Giordano (Neapolitan, 1634 - 1705)

c. 1675/1680

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 149.2 x 164 cm (58 3/4 x 64 9/16 in.) ; framed: 170.2 x 185.4 x 9.2 cm (67 x 73 x 3 5/8 in.)
Culture
Neapolitan
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle in memory of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fuller Feder and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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