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If you think about the natural world, you’ll often envisage tall trees and wide landscapes. You don’t immediately think of the human body, but I’d like to question that line of thinking, because what is more natural than growing another human in one’s body? Let me tell you the epic story behind this work. Here Helen Verhoeven depicts the story of pregnant Callisto. The painting shows Diana, the goddess of the hunt, who has just discovered that Callisto is pregnant. This is controversial because Diana's nymphs were to meant to stay celibate. Callisto, however, was raped by the supreme god Jupiter. Callisto is mercilessly sent away by Diana. Yet Callisto's misery did not end there. After Callisto gave birth to her son Arcas, Jupiter's wife Juno turned Callisto into a bear as revenge. Years later, when her now-grown son Arcas wanted to kill the bear, Jupiter took pity on Callisto, picked them both up, and she and Arcas were placed among the stars as the Great Bear and Little Bear.