Hollywood Titian Rescue
Sex and the City star, Kim Cattrall , is preparing to help save a priceless piece of classic Renaissance art. The artwork at stake is Titian's work, Diana and Callisto . Cattrall , 53, who was born in Liverpool, is an admirer of the Venetian Renaissance painter’s work. She described seeing Diana and Actaeon as “being in the presence of a genius”. In order to keep the painting form selling to a private European buyer, the actor has committed to posing nude for a recreation of a privately owned masterpiece, in order to raise money to enable the British government to buy the work. Cattrall will pose nude for a recreation of Diana and Callisto , which shows the moment when the Roman goddess learns her maid has become pregnant by Jupiter. Last year she posed topless for a re-creation of its sister painting, Diana and Actaeon , which was bought for the National Galleries of Scotland and London after a public fundraising drive. This current rescue mission is viewed as an especial...
