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Finus is the Actaeon of this uniquely Mississippi myth. In 1916, he spies the youthful Birdie turning naked cartwheels in the woods. This encounter with the goddess-like teenager metamorphoses Finus; he becomes a stag...
...output--is his one and only mythological scene, of the moon goddess Diana. The favorite Diana myth among painters showed her bathing with her nymphs (good opening for a painter to show what he could do with pretty nudes) and spied upon by a Peeping Tom of a hunter, Actaeon; whereat the virgin moon goddess, her modesty offended, changed him into a stag. In Vermeer's version, circa 1653-54, there is no Actaeon, no river, no nakedness, and instead of plunging into the stream, Diana is merely having her foot washed in a basin by a nymph--Christian paganism...
...highest: Velazquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja, $5.5 million, in 1970; Titian's Death of Actaeon, $4 million...
...Experiment, both of 50 guns, only a few hundred yards from the fort and proceeded to pound it with broadside after broadside. At the same time, the bomb ketch Thunder anchored farther south and arched explosive 10-inch mortar shells into Moultrie's position. Three lighter vessels, the Actaeon and the Syren, both 28 guns, and the Sphinx, 20, drifted westward into the harbor, hoping to get round the fort and attack it from behind...
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE repertory. I saw these dudes in New York City this summer: I'd seen Jerome Robbins's Goldberg Variations the year before and figured I might enjoy getting into ballet. This American Ballet outfit speedily disabused me. "Diana and Actaeon" is a particularly good number to miss. 8 p.m., tonight and tomorrow at the Loeb...