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On Saturday 31 May, Compton Verney Dining Club will be taking place, all visitors to site this day will need to have purchased a Dining Club ticket, including members.

More information about the event including vendors, entertainment and purchasing a ticket can be found here.

Fatal Attraction:

Diana and Actaeon – The Forbidden Gaze

21 March 2009 – 31 May 2009

About the
exhibition

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the noble hunter Actaeon inadvertently encounters Diana bathing. As a punishment for catching this glimpse, he is transformed into a stag by the goddess and consequently hunted down and killed by his own hounds.

This exhibition focused on works relating to this mythical tale, which has provided a rich source of inspiration through the centuries. It brought together works by artists, including Rembrandt, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Hans Bellmer, Paolo Vernonese, Albrecht Durer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marlene Dumas, Gregory Crewdson, Pierre Klossowski and John Currin.

Organised by museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf with Compton Verney.