Hercules Mythology Artwork

A historical engraving depicting Hercules overpowering Cacus, featuring dramatic poses, detailed figures, and a mythical scene from classical mythology.

Goltzius, Hendrick, Italy, Carracci, Agostino, Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus, Venus and Cupid in a Landscape, verso - stamped, Venus leans against a tree. Cupid is sleeping in the foreground. In the background, farmers are working in the fields., print, prints, height 214 mm, width 154 mm, Italian, 1557 - 1602-03-22, print maker, printmaker, 1599 - 1599, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Northern Netherlands, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01

Master IB (German, active c. 1523-1530), Sol (The Sun), 1528, engraving

God creating Eve out of Adam. Line engraving.

Water, Caspar Luyken, 1691

Nox (Night). Dated: c. 1640. Dimensions: plate: 18.8 x 23.5 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.) sheet: 19.4 x 24.4 cm (7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.). Medium: etching with engraving on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Le Brun.

River god Nile; Nili Flvminis Aegyptii Effigies Vera. Image of the river god Nile, semi-luring, leaning on a sphinx, with a cornucopia in his arm. In the background a Roman ruin.

Half -naked wife washes with sponges and male servant pours water in barrel, Marcantonio Raimondi, after Francesco di Francia, 1510 - 1527 print Italy paper engraving washing and bathing. female sex; woman. servant

Albrecht Dürer, Sol Iustitiae, 1498-1499, engraving on paper.

The Creation of Adam who reclines at left and touching the hand of God 1570-1615 Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia) Italian. The Creation of Adam who reclines at left and touching the hand of God 651209

Five frolicking putti with fruits ..

The Standard Bearer. Artist: Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471-1528 Nuremberg). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (11.5 × 7 cm). Date: ca. 1501. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres. Jacob Matham (Holland, Haarlem, 1571-1631). Holland, 1588. Prints; engravings. Engraving

Apollo with arrow and bow on sky globe and Diana with deer. Apollo is as a sun god with arrow and bow on the sky globe. Behind his naked body's rays. Diana turns him back, on her head a small moon is a reference to her role as moon goddess.

Venus and Cupid (r); Studies of a Woman (v.). Artist: Nikolaus Knüpfer (German, Leipzig 1603-1655/60 Utrecht). Dimensions: 15-3/16 x 12-3/16 in. (38.6 x 31.0 cm). Date: 1620-60. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Death of Seneca, standing at center with his feet in a basin of water, supported by a disciple at left while another takes down his last words at right ca. 1655-78 Alexander Voet II. The Death of Seneca, standing at center with his feet in a basin of water, supported by a disciple at left while another takes down his last words at right. Alexander Voet II (Flemish, Antwerp ca. 1635-after 1695 Ghent). ca. 1655-78. Engraving; second state of two. Cornelis Galle II (Flemish, Antwerp 1615-1678 Antwerp). Prints

Antwerp, Jode, Pieter de (I), Varie figvre academiche, Diversche figvren wt de academia, Drawing example of the three graces, Drawing example. The three graces. Above them fly three putti with flowers in their hands. This print is part of an album., print, picture, album sheet, prints, pictures, height 274 mm, width 186 mm, South Netherlands, 1570 - 1634-08-09, print maker, printmaker, 1629 - 1629, second quarter 17th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process)

religion biblical scenes Adam and Eve the Fall of Man copper engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after painting by Raffael Italy circa 1520,

The Night. Dated: 1553. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Heinrich Aldegrever.

The Creation of Adam. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; Italian, 1609-1664. Date: 1637-1647. Dimensions: 303 × 203 mm. Monotype (dark manner) in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Hercules sculpture in fight with the cattle of Geryon, Anonymous, 1600 - 1699 print Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. (10) the cattle of Geryon secured by Hercules

Sebald Beham, Battle of Three Men Battle of Three Men

Kaïn slaat Abel dood.Cain strikes his brother with a club. He presses the wounded Abel against the ground. In the background Abels sacrifice lamb and on the right the sacrifice of Cain. This print is part of an album.

Death and the Maiden. 1547. Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Fall, Jan Saenredam, after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, 1605 - 1659 print Eva offers Adam an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Around a branch of the tree, the snake is wrinkled that provides Eva another apple. Around the tree some animals (cat, dog, frog, parrot and fox). In the background the creation of Eva from a rib of the sleeping Adam. The print has a Latin caption with assignment. paper engraving Eve offers the fruit to Adam. Eve emerges from Adam's body. cat. dog. ornamental birds: parrot. beasts of prey, predatory animals: fox. tailless amphibians: frog

Heinrich Aldegrever, Susanna Surprised by the Two Elders, 1555 Susanna Surprised by the Two Elders

Woman and Death, Jacob de Gheyn (II), 1600, Allegory of Death. A woman sits on a chair, her face turned en profil to the right, is overwhelmed by Death, holding a knife or dagger in his right hand., draughtsman: Jacob de Gheyn (II), 1600,

Italy, Zanetti, Anton Maria I, Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio, Hunting scene, verso - handwritten in brown ink, A man, seen from behind, blowing a hunting horn. In the foreground on the left are his two hunting dogs. In the background on the left are two men with a horn and a ribbon. In the background on the right are hunting dogs attacking a deer. Text in Latin in the bottom margin., print, prent, prints, engravings, verso - stamped, Giuseppe ..., height 294 mm, width 214 mm, Italian, 1690 - 1780, print maker, printmaker, 1724 - 1724, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1680 - 1757

Haarlem, Heemskerck, Maarten van, Netherlands, Coornhert, Dirck Volckertsz., Proverbs about Fortuna, Soodanich eest hobbelen der fortunes, Thus is fortune unstable, verso middle bottom - stamped, Lady Fortune stands with a man holding a laurel wreath in his hands on a seesaw. Her side is tilted downwards. The seesaw is placed on the back of a dolphin. A rainbow in the background., print, prints, Lady Fortune stands with a man holding a laurel wreath in his hands on a seesaw. Her side is tilted downwards. The seesaw is placed on the back of a dolphin. A rainbow in the background. The print has a Dutch caption and is part of a six-part series of proverbs about Fortuna., height 210 mm, width 247 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1522 - 1590-10-29, print maker, printmaker, 1560 - 1590, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1498 - 1574

Saint John the Baptist in the Desert. Dated: 1513. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: LUCAS VAN LEYDEN.

Antwerp, Jode, Gerard de, Broeck, Crispijn van den, Sadeler, Johann (I), Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera: nunc primum in lucem editus, Historia creationis mundi, Creation and the Fall, Creation of Adam, The sixth day of creation: the creation of Adam. In the foreground is God the Father breathing life into the naked Adam. In the background, God instructs Adam to give the animals names. At the bottom is a reference to the Bible text in Latin. The print is part of an album., print, prent, albumblad, prints, height 194 mm, width 269 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1579 - 1579, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1524 - 1591, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, Northern Netherlands, 1509 - 1591-02-05, publisher

Two reclining angels lean on a skull, Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594.

The Temptation of Adam. Jan Pietersz. Saenredam (Holland, Zaandam, circa 1565-1607). Holland, 1604. Prints; engravings. Engraving

Young man protected by woman with globe and sacrificial scale as a personification of Fortuin (Fortuna), Marcantonio Raimondi, 1506 - 1507 print paper engraving Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Aurea fortune', 'Good luck', 'peaceful luck overo Clemente', 'fate' (Ripa)

Cupid lights the way to bed Date: 18th century

Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man) 1509-1519 Netherlands. Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper . Lucas van Leyden

Antwerp, Jode, Pieter de (I), Italy, Tempesta, Antonio, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum, Martem Veneremqe adulterantes Vulcanus reti suo implicat, Vulcan catches Mars and Venus, verso - stamped, Vulcan catches the adulterous Venus and Mars, who are in bed together, with a net. Title in Latin in bottom margin., print, prints, height 104 mm, width 117 mm, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05, print maker, 1606 - 1606, paper, etching, Publication (Event), Publication, South Dutch, 1570 - 1634-08-09, publisher

Bliżej Kultury Mayer, Carl (1798 1868), Dyk, van

Temptation of Eve, Engraving by W. Kilian

. Personally personalized painting is on a pie stable on which the series title in six rules in Dutch. She can't speak through the cloth tied to her mouth so that one has to see what she portrays. Behind her is the ignorance with donkey ears, blindly painting painting. Behind ignorance the envy. However, painting shows its work on the personalized speech. Four putti surround the base. Title print of part 2 of a series of prints with symbols, in total consisting of three parts with 23, 17 and 20 prints respectively.

The BewitchedGroom. Artist: Hans Baldung, German 1484/85-1545

Spanish Crown, unknown, Vorsterman, Lucas (I), Seghers, Gerard, Antwerp, Christ at the Flogging Post, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 425 mm, width 284 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1595 - 1675, print maker, printmaker, 1619 - 1657, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1591 - 1651-03-18, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, granter of privilege

Hercules Fighting the Fury and the Discord. Dimensions: sheet: 60 x 35.2 cm (23 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.). Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Christoffel Jegher after Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

The Satyr Family. Albrecht Dürer (Germany, Nuremberg, 1471-1528). Germany, 1505. Prints; engravings. Engraving

Diogenes, Print made by Juliet Thornton, active 1771, after Salvator Rosa, Italian, 1615-1673, Italian, 1771, Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 20 1/4 × 14 1/2 inches (51.4 × 36.8 cm) and Image: 18 × 14 inches (45.7 × 35.6 cm)

Jason; Card game with mythological performances; Jeu des Fables (copy). Playing card with a representation of Jason who throws poison in the eyes of the dragon that guilder fleece monitors.

Evening: a seated satyr clasps his child, a figure hangs a garland on a pier beyond, from the series 'Hours of the day'. Artist: Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619-1690 Paris). Dimensions: image: 7 5/16 x 9 1/4 in. (18.6 x 23.5 cm). Publisher: Pierre Mariette (French, 1596-1657). Series/Portfolio: Hours of the day. Date: ca. 1640. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Putto and cherubs with a goblet. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1600 - 1800. Measurements: h 111 mm × w 82 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Saint Jerome. Engraving by Agostino Carracci.

The Philosophers. Artist: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) (Italian, Venice ca. 1490-after 1536 Rome); Designed() by Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, Gaiole in Chianti 1493-1560 Florence). Dimensions: 4 1/4 x 2 13/16 in. (10.8 x 7.1 cm). Date: ca. 1514-36. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Nuremberg, Solis, Virgil, Venus on Bed, verso - handwritten in brown ink, print, prints, verso - stamped, 110, height 50 mm, width 83 mm, German, 1514 - 1562-08-01, print maker, printmaker, 1524 - 1562, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching

Danes, anonymous, after marcantonio raimondio, after rafaël, 1517 - 1575 print paper engraving Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Dancing

Jan Sadeler I after Crispen van den Broecke, Simeon, c 1585 Simeon

Two men and a woman in a tent-like hut made of wood. One man is sitting at a table, another is pouring water into the fire so that there is a lot of smoke in the small space. The woman is busy preparing food., Locals on the island of Kamtschatka receive guests in their home, print maker: Lambertus Antonius Claessens, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacques Kuyper, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1803, paper, etching, h 115 mm × w 75 mm

Theseus fighting a centaur. Engraving by Steinmiller after A. Canova.

Two sword fighters; Sword fighters. Two naked sword fighters. The print is part of a series about two sword fighters in a two camp.

Seneque standing in the bath Alexander Voet and Peter Paul Rubens (after). "Senec de standing in the bath". Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.

Toeletta d'Ermafrodito; affresco nella casa d'Adone.

River Tiber. Image of the river god tiber with as attributes a horn with fruits, a wool fin and the twins romulus and remus. Around the show a list of representations of wolves, sheep, figures with boats and figures in the water.

Allegory with combat between putto satyr and child as virtue and vice, Pieter de Bailliu I, Peter van Lint, 1623-1660

Adoration of golden calf. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (author of design) painter c. 1545 Tapestry Dimensions: H 415 x W 563 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Ownership History: Austria, Vienna, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, accno. I/7. Inscriptions: Unidentified weaver mark on right guard, top Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche: FECERVNTQVE SIBI VITVLVM ... In landscape, Aaron makes golden calf, builds altar & offers sacrifice to golden calf, while kneeling figures surround; in upper R corner, on seeing idolaters Moses breaks tables of law (Exodus 32:1-19) (L & R BRD) segmented border with figures in architectural niches, coats of arms at top; (UPR BRD) headed by cartouche with inscription, flanked by garlands of flowers & fruit, & 2 miniature masks; (LWR BRD) standing & seated male & female figures interspersed with swags & vases terminating in cornucopias Photographs in Photo Study Collection are details only; see Mahl's article

Men and women bathing, some embracing. Artist: Giulio Bonasone (Italian, active Rome and Bologna, 1531-after 1576). Dimensions: sheet: 9 1/16 x 13 3/8 in. (23 x 34 cm). Date: 1531-76. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

St Sebastian at the Column Made 1494-1504 Germany. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Albrecht Dürer

Ein Kentaur, Centaurus, Centauri, Zentaur, ein Mischwesen der griechischen Mythologie aus Pferd und Mensch, historisches Rom, Italien, digitale Reprod...

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, Dance of Cupids Dance of Cupids

Teniers, David (II), Malo, Vincentius, Genoa, Wijngaerde, Frans van den, Two bathing women, verso lower left - stamped, Departure with two naked women in a washtub. One of them is seen from the back and is combing her long hair. Another woman is drying her hair with a cloth. On the right an old woman with an opened box., print, prent, prints, engravings, height 254 mm, width 197 mm, Zuid-Nederlands, 1614-07-08 - 1679-03-17, print maker, printmaker, 1636 - 1679, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), after, after a painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1610 - 1690-04-25, publisher

Wealth brings lust for sex in the monastery, seduction in the monastery, Dutch symbolic-satirical engraving, 17th century / Reichtum bringt Lust auf Sex im Kloster, Verführung im Kloster, niederländischer symbolisch-satirischer Stich, 17. Jahrhundert, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt, Kolorierung, koloriert, handkoloriert, Hand-colouring, hand coloured, colored.

Cornelis Galle I, Title page for Mafeo Barberini (Urban VII), Poemata, Antwerp, 1634, 1634, engraving on paper.

Interiorum corporis humani partium viva delineatio, from the second edition of the Compendiosa totius anatomie delineation. Monogrammist R. S.; active in London or Paris, 1550/65. Date: 1555-1559. Dimensions: 358 × 370 mm (image/sheet, trimmed within block mark). Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper, with cut and tipped ivory laid papers. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

According to Greek mythology, the hero Bellerophon, with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus, slew the monster as the Chimaera, which was part lion, part goat, and part dragon. Bellerophon became too proud of his accomplishments and tried to fly to heaven on Pegasus, but was thrown and blindedand according to one legend, killed. This illustration shows Pegasus and three nymphs caring for him. It was done by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770 -1844), a Danish sculptor and medalist of international fame

Antwerp, Jode, Pieter de (I), Italy, Tempesta, Antonio, Metamorphoses of Ovid, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum, Aesoni decrepito iuventam restituit Medea, Medea restores the youth of Aeson, verso - stamped, Aeson lies on the ground in front of Medea. Medea brews a magic potion in a large cauldron. The magic potion is supposed to restore Aeson's youth. In the background an altar surrounded by burning torches. Title in Latin in bottom margin., print, prints, height 104 mm, width 117 mm, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05, print maker, printmaker, 1606 - 1606, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, South Netherlands, 1570 - 1634-08-09, publisher

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