Mythological and Allegorical Art

Art depicting mythological themes and allegories featuring human figures in dramatic poses, exploring themes of fame and fortune.

Francesca da Rimini from Dante's Inferno by Ary Scheffer, Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

Troy Triptych - Study of Fame overthrowing Fortune, 1875. By Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Francesca da Rimini from Dante's Inferno by Ary Scheffer, Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

LA BATALLA SIN AMBITO - 1986 - OLEO/LIENZO - 223 x 180. Author: GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

ALEGORIA DE AMERICA - 1738 - OLEO/LIENZO - 37X69 CM. Author: FRANCESCO DE MURA (1696-1782). Location: PALACIO REAL-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

CREACION DEL SOL Y LA LUNA ANTES DE LA RESTAURACION. Author: Michelangelo. Location: MUSEOS VATICANOS-CAPILLA SIXTINA. VATICANO.

The adoration of the bronze snake. Date/Period: From 1540 until 1545. Fresco. Height: 300 cm (118.1 in); Width: 380 cm (12.4 ft). Author: Bronzino.

'Saturn Devouring one of his Sons', 1820-1823, Oil on canvas, 146 x 83 cm, P00763. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. SATURN (MYTHOLOGY). CRONOS.

LA EDAD DEL HOMBRE. Author: EMILE FABRY. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Rome. ITALIA.

Troy Triptych - Study for Love subduing Oblivion, 1875. By Sir Edward Burne-Jones

France, Paris, Fee aux Griffons

Fresco, detail of Venus, house of Marine Venus, Pompeii. Museum: Naples Museum, NAPOLES, ITALIA.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). French painter. Angelique, around 1819. Study for "Roger and Angelique". Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Assumption of the Virgin, by Allegri Antonio known as Correggio, 1526 - 1530, 16th Century, fresco. Italy, Emilia Romagna, Parma, Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral, Dome. Detail. Cherubs angels clouds faces souls blessed light.

ESCENA DEL MITO DE SEMELE - ALEGORIA DEL EMBARAZO - BAILE RITUAL - FRESCO SIGLO I AC. Location: VILLA DE LOS MISTERIOS. POMPEII. ITALIA.

Gropius Martin (1824-1880), Intarsia filling of the choir stalls of St. Maria Delle Grazie, Milan (without dat.): View. Ink on wood, 63.2 x 31.7 cm (including scan edges) Gropius Martin (1824-1880): Intarsie am Chorgestühl von St. Maria delle Grazie, Mailand

TINTORETTO, Jacopo Robusti, called Il (1518-1594). Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar. 1555. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Venetian school. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

SAN SEBASTIAN. Location: CATEDRAL-INTERIOR. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

'Cupid', Late 16th century, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 148 cm x 65 cm, P00281. Author: PARMIGIANINO (COPIA). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. CUPID. AMOR MITOLOGIA.

Palazzo Galleria, Florence Italy.

Hans Memling (1430-1494). German painter. The Last Judgment, 1467-1471. Triptych. Right panel. Detail. The damned are being dragged to Hell. National Museum. Gdansk. Poland.

Angel, detail from the frescoed vault (before its restoration), by Lorenzo and Francesco Natali (died in 1723), Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 18th century.

Saint Sebastian, Botticelli, Sandro, 1474.

John on Patmos, Anonymous, 1700 - 1800

Resurrection, by Crespi Giovan Battista known as Cerano, 1610, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy: Lombardy: Milan: Sant'Antonio Abate church. Detail. Soldier body muscles torso/trunk helmet headgear/headdress chiaroscuro

Painting titled 'The Manchester Madonna' by Michelangelo (1475-1564) an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. Dated 15th Century

Woman Ironing, by Pablo Picasso, 1904, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

'Inspiration', 1902. Artist: Carlos Schwabe

The Brazen Serpent, by Robusti Jacopo known as Tintoretto, 1575, 16th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Venice, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Upper Hall. Detail. Bottom left mid-field face of man lying on ground.

The martyrdom of St Sebastian, by Luigi Asioli (1817-77), oil on canvas, 165x93 cm.

'Christ Child'. Germany, 16th century. Dimensions: 36x23 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Lucas Cranach I (school of).

'Venus and Amor', c. 1620-1630, Oil on wood, 196 x 89 cm. Author: LUCAS CRANACH THE YOUNGER. Location: ALTE PINAKOTHEK. MUNICH. GERMANY. CUPID. AMOR MITOLOGIA. VENUS DIOSA ROMANA.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 1, Frontispiece, Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1793, Color-printed relief etching in brown with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm) and Plate: 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (23.5 x 16.8 cm), cannon, chains, children, clouds, men, night, nudes, religious and mythological subject, shackles, stones, women

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. Judith and Holofernes, 1820-1823. Detail. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain.

A 'harem' is not a bordello, seraglio or brothel, but refers to the women's quarters, usually in a polygynous household, which are forbidden to men. It originated in the Near East and is typically associated in the Western world with the Ottoman Empire. Female seclusion in Islam is emphasized to the extent that any unlawful breaking into that privacy is haram ie, 'forbidden'. A Muslim harem does not necessarily consist solely of women with whom the head of the household has sexual relations (wives and concubines), but also their young offspring, other female relatives or odalisques, which are the concubines' servants. The harem may either be a palatial complex, as in Romantic tales, in which case it includes staff (women and eunuchs), or simply their quarters, in the Ottoman tradition separated from the men's selamlik. A hammam is a common bath house.

Bacchanalia, Goltzius, Hendrick

The Letter of Uriah / Franciabigio

Roman frescoes at Ercolano Herculaneum, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Campania, Italy, Europe

Paul Delaroche, The young martyr, Oil on canvas, 1855Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Eugene Delacroix; French; 1798-1863; Christ at the Colonen; Oil on canvas.

'Allegorical Scene'. France, late 19th - early 20th century. Dimensions: 279,5 x 84,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Edmond Anne Antoine Tapissier.

Polyphemus and Galatea, by Unknown, 62 - 79, 1st Century, painted stucco. Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, From Herculaneum. Whole artwork. Polyphemus man muscle strength leopard-skin seated rod woman nymph Galatea.

Day (Truth). Ferdinand Hodler; Swiss, 1853-1918. Date: 1896-1898. Dimensions: 79 × 41 1/2 in. (200.5 × 105 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: Switzerland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Joined pair of cherubs second half 18th century Italian, Naples In 1964, Loretta Hines Howard generously presented to the Museum over 140 Neapolitan crèche figures, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. The varied assortment includes figures from the three traditional scenes of a complete Neapolitan presepio: the Nativity, with angels, shepherds, and sheep; the procession of the three Magi, with their colorful retinue of attendants; and the varied and gay crowd of country and town people thronging the tavern, or inn, of Bethlehem the diversorium mentioned by St. Luke, where on the Holy Night there was no place for Mary and Joseph. Averaging between twelve and fifteen inches in height, according to the position they were to take in perspective in the stage set, the figures are pliable and can be given poses at will, according to their facial expressions. Their bodies are made of tow and wire, their arms and legs are finely carved of wood, and their heads and shoulders

Expulsion from Paradise Masaccio (1401-c.1428/ Florentine) The Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

METIS ARCE - 1975 - TECNICA MIXTA/TABLA - 100X81 CM. Author: LUCIO MUÑOZ (1929-1998). Location: FUNDACION SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO. MADRID. SPAIN.

The everlasting Father by Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona 1604-1607 Fresco Italy, Bolognese School Baroque Bible Painting

Heraclitus, the crying philosopher. Heraclito, el filosofo que llora. 1.81 X 0.63. Madrid, Prado museum. Author: PEDRO PABLO RUBENS TALLER. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Italy, Piedmont, Biella, Fresco of Saint Sebastian 1896, Basilica San Sebastian.

R- DETALLE DE BETSABE EN EL BAÑO - S XIX - ROMANTICISMO ITALIANO. Author: FRANCESCO HAYEZ (1791-1882). Location: PINACOTECA DI BRERA. Milan. ITALIA.

Terminus, The Device of Erasmus, The Terminus was the personal symbol (device) and seal of the famous humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) . It depicted the Roman god Terminus, who as a deity was responsible for defining and maintaining borders, authentic reproduction of a work of art, painting, drawing by Hans Holbein the Elder (born 1465 in Augsburg, died 1524 in Basel or Isenheim), German Renaissance painter, historical

Venus in Vulcan's forge c.1560

The Majesty, by Martini Simone, 1313 - 1315, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala del Mappamondo. Detail. The left hand of the Virgin..

Eve. Date/Period: Ca. 1530. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 107.6 cm (42.3 in); Width: 36.4 cm (14.3 in). Author: Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Nude in Landscape. Date: 1900. Oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard. Museum: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN.

Roman fresco, Circa.60-50 BC, Italy, Pompeii, Villa of the Mysteries

The Dream Le Reve 1883 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898 French) Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Briar Rose Series, Study for 'The Garden Court' Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Sleeping, WatercolourPre-Raphaelite, Female

Termagant from Last of the Mohicans by Newell Convers Wyeth, oil on canvas, 1919, 1882-1945, USA, Pennsylvania, Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum

Panicale (Italy, Umbria, province of Perugia), Church of San Sebastiano. Perugino, Martyrdom of San Sebastiano, fresco, 1505. Detail

Diana of Ephesus and the Slaves, 1895-1899, by Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860-1932), oil on canvas, 304x421 cm. Detail.

GALLEN KALELLA, Axel-Gallen (1865-1931). Lemminkainen's Mother. 1897. Oil on canvas. FINLAND. UUDENMAAN. Helsinki. Ateneum Museum of Finnish Art.

Scheherazade. Medard Tytgat (1879-1957). Oil On Canvas.

'The Dweller in the Innermost', c1885, (1912). Artist: George Frederick Watts.

Sketch; Horseshoe, w Adys Aw (1866-1895); 1893 (1893-00-00-1893-00-00);Young Poland (Style), Partage Plus, Purchase (provenance)

''The Beguiling of Merlin', 1874, Oil on cavnas, 186 x 111 cm. Author: EDWARD BURNE-JONES (1833-1898). Location: LADY LEVER ART GALLERY. LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND. MERLIN MAGO. NIMUE.

Julius Paulsen (1860-1940), Fabric, 1891

J.Restout, Tod der heiligen Scholastika - -

"Detail from Pinnacle from an altarpiece showing the Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels c. 1472 Tempera and tooled gold on panel by Carlo Crivelli, Italian"

Painting on the panel of merry-go-round, Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, Devon, England

Toilette de LHermaphrodite, Greek mythological figure with both male and female physical features, wall painting, fresco from historic Pompeii, digita...

SAN SEBASTIAN - 1608-1614 - OLEO/LIENZO - 175x85 cm - MANIERISMO ESPAÑOL - NP 3002. Author: EL GRECO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Brühl, Falkenlust Palace/ Upper Vestibule

Putto, detail of an 18th century Savoy manufacture tapestry featuring Cyrus as a child, woven by Vittorio Demignot, based on a cartoon by Claudio Francesco Beaumont, from the series dedicated to the History of Cyrus.

Bathing of Red Horse by Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin, Oil on canvas, 1912, 1878-1939, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 160x186

Ancona (Italia, Marche), Pinacoteca Civica Podesti. Tiziano Vecellio, Pala Gozzi (Madonna in Gloria con i santi Francesco e Biagio), 1520, opera firmata, tecnica mista su tavola

'Hope', 1886. Artist: George Frederick Watts

Moses, Aaron and Hur on Mount Horeb. Date: 1857. oil on canvas. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

'Cupid with a Bow'. Frescoes of the Villa Spada (Stati-Mattei) on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Italy, 1516-1518. Dimensions: 98x138 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael) (school of).

And Lived by the Fruit, N.C. Wyeth

The Infant Hercules with a Serpent. Dating: 1700 - 1722. Measurements: h 34.5 cm × w 43 cm; d 7.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Pieter van der Werff.

The New Perfume. John William Godward (1861-1922). Oil On Canvas, 1914. Catalogue No. 407c.

Unterlinden Museum. The Isenheim Altarpiece, Nikolaus Hagenauer and Matthias Grünewald, in 1512-1516. Jesus. Colmar. France. Colmar. France.

Etching or Lithograph from a scene of Shakespeare's "King Lear". Benjamin Franklin Upton (American, 1818 - 1910)

Portable Garbo. Wilhelm Freddie; Danish, 1909-1995. Date: 1941. Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 13 in. (22 × 33 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: Denmark. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

sin titulo, carlos Mensa, 1978, Oleo sobre tela, Mallorca, balearic islands, Spain.

The Spirit of the Rainbow. oil on canvas. Date: 1912-1919. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The Lamentation (Detail) Giotto di Bondone (c.1266-1337/Italian) Fresco Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

On the Seashore (Modern Iphigenia) by Feuerbach, Anselm (1829-1880) Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf 1875 Oil on canvas 197x135,5 Germany Romanticism Mythology, Allegory and Literature Painting

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Boys Climbing a Tree', 1791-1792, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 141 cm x 111 cm, P00803. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

St Adalbert, detail from a triptych, 1490-1499, by Niccolo Rondinelli (ca 1450-1510), panel, 180x63 cm.

Portrait of the son (d.1661) of Krzysztof Pac (1621-1684) and Klara de Mailly-Laskaris (1630-1685). unknown, painter

Daedalus and Icarus. Engraving by A.G.L. Desnoyers after C.P. Landon.

Amor and Psyche. Psyche spends the god amor in his sleep. She has an oil lamp and a dagger in her hands. Psyche is scared by the beauty of Amor and messes a drop of oil from her lamp, making it awaken. This print is part of an album.

Customs of the inhabitants of Brazil, 1577, from Habitus praecipuorum popularum, engraving by Jost Amman.

SAN JUAN EVANGELISTA-DET - Conj 18588. Location: CASA MUSEO DEL GRECO-COLECCION. Toledo. SPAIN. JESUS.

Saint Jerome (ca.340-420). Doctor of the Church. Portrait by Antonio Allegri Il Correggio (1489-1534), 1515-1518. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain.

The Tightrope Walker. Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Pastel on board. Signed and dated 1904. 30.5 x 33cm.

In Norse mythology, Loki is the personification/deity of mischief. He murdered Baldr, the god of joy and peace, and was punished by being bound to three slabs of stone with the entrails of his son Narfi. A snake was placed above his head, whose venom poured on his face. Loki's wife Sigyn collected the venom in a bowl, but had to empty it periodically. When she did, Loki could not protect his face from the searing poison.

Louis Valtat (1869-1952). "Sculpture Academy". Oil on canvas. 1919-1921. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 143989-24 oil on canvas

Saint Cecilia Caccia Oil on canvas Pinacoteca Sabauda, Torino, Italy

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