Jean-Marie Fiori

According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Boeotian hero and hunter Actaeon accidentally saw Artemis, goddess of wild animals, vegetation, and childbirth, while she was bathing on Mount Cithaeron; for this reason he was changed by her into a stag and was pursued and killed by his own 50 hounds. Inspired by mythology and this particular story, Fiori designed this lamp to pay homage to the work of Ovid whose posterity is centuries old.