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Greek Goddess Artemis Pictures (or Roman Goddess Diana Pictures)
On this page you'll find more Greek goddess Artemis pictures. Usually, in art she is called with her Roman name, Diana.
A Greek statue of the great Praxiteles:
Diana of Gabii (marble)
Praxiteles
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and another one from the ancient city of Ephesus (the protuberances on her body were thought to be breasts, but it appears they represent bull heads):
Artemis of the Ephesians, 135-175 AD (marble)
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Statuette of the Goddess Artemis of Ephesus, Roman, 1st century AD (terracotta)
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Goddess Artemis/Diana in ancient frescoes:
Diana-the Huntress
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Diana-Primavera
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These Artemis pictures are classical representations of the goddess (with a bow and a deer or a hound):
Diana of the Hunt
Fontainbleau
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Diana
Vargas®, Alberto
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 Diana the Huntress, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This is a painting by Pompeo Batoni, where you can see the goddess breaking Cupid’s bow – a physical representation of the fact that she was the only one who was allowed to reject love.
Pictures of the Greek goddess Artemis / the Roman goddess Diana, with her favourite activities, hunting and bathing with the nymphs (the light is marvelous in Boucher’s paintings):
Diana Resting After Bath
Boucher, Francois
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Diana Resting after the Hunt
Boucher, Francois
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In this painting by Rubens, I like the way all their hands bow, as if they were boughs in the wind:
Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by Fauns, 1638-40
Rubens, Peter Paul
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Sometimes, the Artemis pictures would represent a noble woman as the goddess herself:
... Queen Elizabeth I of England
Queen Elizabeth I of England as the goddess Diana, sitting in judgement over Pope Gregory XIII
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... or Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, Duchess of Chevreuse(1600-79)
Marie de Rohan-Montbazon (1600-79) Duchess of Chevreuse as Diana the Huntress
Deruet, Claude
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... or Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566)
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) as Diana the Huntress
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Or else their gardens were represented as the ideal place for Artemis/Diana and her nymphs:
The Groves of Versailles: View of the Maze with Diana and her Nymphs, 1688
Cotelle, Jean the Younger
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