diana and actaeon is a painting by the italian renaissance master titian, finished in 1556–1559, and is considered amongst titian's greatest works. it portrays the moment in which the hunter actaeon bursts in where the goddess diana and her nymphs are bathing. diana is furious, and will turn actaeon into a stag, who is then pursued and killed by his own hounds, a scene titian later painted in his "the death of actaeon" (national gallery).