Mythological Artworks

Artworks featuring mythological themes, depicting figures like Andromeda and representations of celestial beings, with dramatic scenes and intricate details.

Atalanta and Hippomenes 17th C. Guido Reni (1575-1642/Bolognese)

Last judgment, luca signorelli, orvieto cathedral

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. Pendentive ephebe naked: nude young boy back arm.

Atalanta and Hippomenes 17th C. Guido Reni (1575-1642/Bolognese)

Depicts the god Saturn, created as a Clair-Obscur woodcut on four plates by Ugo da Carpi between 1525 and 1527.

'Perseus Rescuing Andromeda', 1611, Oil on canvas, 180 x 150 cm. Author: JOACHIM WTEWAEL (1566-1638). Location: LOUVRE MUSEUM-PAINTINGS. France. Andromeda. PEGASO. PERSEO-MITOLOGIA GRIEGA.

Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos. Date/Period: 1784 to 1785. Drawing. Graphite with pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper. Height: 235 mm (9.25 in); Width: 337 mm (13.26 in). Author: William Blake.

LA EDAD DE ORO - DETALLE. Author: JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Nación. France.

SPRANGER, Bartholomaeus (1546-1611). Venus and Vulcan. ca. 1610. Later work. It belonged to the art collection of Rudolf II. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History).

Pedro Pablo Rubens / 'The Rape of Ganymede', 1636-1637, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 181 cm x 87,3 cm, P01679. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. Author: PETER PAUL RUBENS.

Hercules and Cacus, draughtsman: Jan Gossaert, 1518 - 1528, prepared paper, pen, brush, h 370 mm × w 545 mm

Prometheus bound to a rock, his liver eaten by an eagle. Engraving by C. Cort, 1566.

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus. Artist: Nicolas Poussin (French, Les Andelys 1594-1665 Rome). Dimensions: 38 3/8 x 28 5/8 in. (97.5 x 72.7 cm). Date: ca. 1627.The picture was painted not long after Poussin arrived in Rome. It represents the story of Midas, an allegory of vanity, from Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i>. Bacchus offered Midas a gift, and the king asked that everything he touched be turned to gold. Soon realizing that he could neither eat nor drink, he asked to be relieved of the gift and Bacchus sent him to wash it away in the Pactolus river. Partly submerged in water, Midas is accompanied by the personification of the river god. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ganymede Raped by Jupiter Transformed into an Eagle, by Unknown artist, 1550, 16th Century, fresco. Italy: Lazio: Rome: Palazzo Spada: Galleria degli Stucchi. Whole artwork. Ganymede rape kidnapping man eagle Jupiter transformed dog naked men yellow black gray blue frame white stucco

Goldsmith's art, Italy, 18th century. Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli (1662-1719), Reliquary of Saint Emeric in gilded bronze, ebony, pietre dure and precious stones, 1717. Height 75 cm. Detail

BAUTISMO DE CRISTO-DET. Author: EL GRECO-Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1540-1614). Location: HOSPITAL TAVERA-HOSPITAL DE SAN JUAN BAUTISTA. Toledo. SPAIN.

Mythological Scene.

Entombment and Deposition, Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1526.

The Last Judgment, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, fresco, detail, 1475-1564, Vatican, Sistine Chapel

The Death of Abel

La historia general delas Indias con priuilegio imperial, 1540. By Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557). Printed by Juan Cromberger

Torture of Prometheus, Moreau, Gustave, 1868.

Orpheus in front of Pluto and prosperpina

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, early 1620s, Cristoforo Roncalli (il Pomarancio), Italian, (Tuscany), c. 1553-1626, 96 1/2 × 65 3/4 in. (245.11 × 167.01 cm) (sight)107 1/2 × 75 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (273.05 × 191.14 × 8.89 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, Italy, 17th century, This dreamlike painting shows Jacobs encounter with an angel on his journey home to Canaan. Jacob had sent his family and servants ahead to meet his twin brother Esau, along with his best livestock to be given as a peace offering. Left alone in the night, Jacob met a stranger and wrestled him until dawn. The angel, realizing he could not prevail, put Jacobs hip out of joint and implored, 'Let me go, for the day is breaking.' Jacob refused without a blessing. The angel asked Jacob his name and said, 'You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with human beings and have prevailed.' Then the angel blessed Jacob.

Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve From Milton's "Paradise Lost" ca.1807 William Blake Pen & watercolor The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Andrieu, Pierre (n.1821-12-12-D.1892-01-30), sketch for the peace fair of the Paris City Hall: Hercules killing the Centaur Netus (Main title), 1852. Oil on Web. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris. Sketch for the peace fair of the Paris City Hall: Hercules killing the Centaur Netus (Main title) Sketches for the old town hall in Paris (title of the ensemble)

LA MUERTE Y LA MUCHACHA - SIGLO XVI - RENACIMIENTO ALEMAN. Author: HANS BALDUNG (1484-1545) GRIEN. Location: MUSEO DEL BARGELLO. Florenz. ITALIA.

Netherlands, Feddes van Harlingen, Pieter, Apollo and Marsyas, verso - handwritten, Apollo and Marsyas: Apollo with his left arm leaning on a tree trunk, under his right arm his lyre. He watches Marsyas being flayed., print, prent, prints, PFH, height 214 mm, width 196 mm, 1586 - 1623-07-10, print maker, printmaker, 1611 - 1623, paper, papier, etching, etsen

Vulcan Forging Armour for Achilles Giulio Romano (1492-1546/Italian) Palazzo Ducale, Mantua

Good and Evil by William Hogarth, Oil on canvas, circa 1736, 1697-1764, Great Britain, London, Tate Britain, 61,9x74,5

Moses defends Jethro's daughters, 1523-1524, by Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), oil on canvas, 160x117 cm.

Photo reproduction of engraving by Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eva, photograph, photo, photos, height 245 mm, width 187 mm, photographer, 1910 - 1940, first quarter 20th century, second quarter 20st century, second quarter 20th century, paper, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print, print, eg: engraving, etching, lithograph

The Conversion of Saint Paul. Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529 - 1566)

Giulio Romano (1499-1546). Italian painter and architect. Roman school. Love Scene (Two Lovers), 1524-1525. Detail of the bedpost. Satyr with a nymph. Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

The Golden Age 1875 England. Oil on canvas . Sir John Edward Poynter

Woman Sleeping in the Nude in a Wooded Landscape, Robert Smirke, 1752-1845, British, and / or Mary Smirke, 1779-1853, British, undated, Gouache, oil, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, mounted on, thick, smooth, brown, wove paper, Sheet: 4 × 5 7/16 inches (10.2 × 13.8 cm) and Mount: 12 11/16 × 10 inches (32.2 × 25.4 cm)

Amsterdam, Muller, Harmen Jansz, Vries, Adriaen de, Jan Harmensz., Mercury and Psyche, Mercury and Psyche: side view with the side of Psyche, verso - stamped, Mercury carries Psyche to heaven. After a sculpture by sculptor Adriaen de Vries. Side view with the side of Psyche., print, prent, prints, height 512 mm, width 261 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1571 - 1628, print maker, printmaker, 1595 - 1599, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1556 - 1626-05-15, after image by, Publication (Event), Publication, Netherlands, 1540 - 1617-10-07, publisher

The Expulsion from Paradise - Cornelius van Poelenburgh, circa 1650

Camera Work: 'Twixt the Cup and the Lip, 1907. F. Benedict Herzog (American, c. 1859-1912). Photogravure;

Robin Goodfellow (Puck), Füssli (Fuseli), Johann Heinrich (1741-1825)

Pity. Date/Period: Ca. 1795. Print. Color print, pen, black ink and watercolor on cream-colored paper (Color print with pen and black ink and watercolor, varnished on moderately textured wove paper). Height: 413 mm (16.25 in); Width: 514 mm (20.23 in). Author: William Blake.

Lazio Viterbo Bagnaia Villa Lante47. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Fresco attributed to Paul Troger (1698-1762), Firmian Palace, Mezzocorona, Piana Rotaliana, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, 18th century, detail.

Angel, detail of the vault ceiling

Reproduction of unknown painting (Diana), Louvre, Anonymous, After Unknown, 1907 - 1935 photograph glass slide picture, painting

Marine centaur with the shield of Achilles and Tethys, sitting at his side. Roman fresco. From the House of the Quadriga VII 2, 25. Pompeii. Second half of the 1st century. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Anderson, Domenico, 1177 , Photo reproduction of fresco Mercury leads Psyche to Olympos by Raphael, Farnesina in Rome, photograph, foto, foto's, 1177 PSICHE CONDOTTA DA MERCURIO ALL' OLIMPO DI RAFFAELLE, height mm, width mm, Italian, 1854 - 1939, photographer, 1857 - 1875, third quarter 19th century, paper, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, albumen print

Man fighter fierce

The Catch, Hendrik Carré (II), 1734 painting The fishery. Grisaille with fishing putti. On the right a fountain with a putto, on the left two women. Pendant of SK-A-2837. canvas. oil paint (paint) Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Commercial Fishery. Angling

J. M. W. Turner, The Fall of Anarchy ( Death on a Pale Horse) , 1833-4 , Oil paint on canvas, London, England.

EVA PRIMA PANDORA - HACIA 1550 - OLEO/TABLA - 97,5 x 150 cm - RENACIMIENTO FRANCES. Author: COUSIN JEAN EL VIEJO. Location: LOUVRE MUSEUM-PAINTINGS. France.

Vries, Adriaen de, Amsterdam, Muller, Jan Harmensz., Mercury and Psyche, Mercury and Psyche: view with the back of Psyche, verso - stamped, Mercury carries Psyche to heaven. After a sculpture by sculptor Adriaen de Vries. Psyche seen on the back., print, prent, prints, height 510 mm, width 264 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1571 - 1628, print maker, printmaker, 1595 - 1599, paper, papier, chalk, kras, engraving, engraving (printing process), brush, Borstel, Noord-Nederlands, 1556 - 1626-05-15, after sculpture by

The End of Mankind / Signorelli

Hercules Defeating King Geryon. Hercules vence al rey Gerion. Canvas (1.36X1.67). 17th century. Madrid, Prado museum. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Italy, Rome, Capitoline Museum, Palazzo dei Conservatori, art gallery, St.John Baptist (A.D.1602), oil on canvas, Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio artist, restorer

France, Juste, Juste de, Pyramid of six men, verso bottom center - stamped, Six naked men together form a human pyramid., print, prent, prints, height 258 mm, width 207 mm, French, 1505 - 1559, print maker, prentmaker, 1541 - 1545, second quarter 16th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings

The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827-1844, by Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). Louvre Museum. Paris. France. Romanticism. Detail.

Mythological scene by Domenichino, fresco, 1617-1618, 1581-1641, Florentine School, England, London, 316x190,4

Anonymous. Architecture (allegory, decorative painting for the La Rivière hotel then Canillac, 14 Place des Vosges, current 4th arrondissement). Oil on canvas. Grisaille paint. 1701-1800. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 76088-22

Moroni palace: rooms and frescoes, bergamo, Italy.

Sleep, c. 1771. Jean Bernard Restout (French, 1732-1797). Oil on canvas; framed: 127.5 x 160 x 14 cm (50 3/16 x 63 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 97.6 x 130 cm (38 7/16 x 51 3/16 in.).

Die Schöpfung des Menschen, Sixtinische Kapelle, Stahlstich nach dem Fresko von Michelangelo, Vatikan, Rom, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert 1f-4903159

Diana the Huntress by Master of the School of Fontainebleau (2nd third of 16th cen.) / Louvre, Paris / c. 1550 / France, School of Fontainebleau / Oil on canvas / Portrait,Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 191x132 / Renaissance

HERCULES Y EL LEON DE NEMEA - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: JOSE DE RIBERA. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Julien de Parma / 'The Rape of Ganymede'. 1778. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Allegory of the Morning, by Constantino Cedini (1741-1811), fresco, central hall, Villa Vendramin Cappello Collizzolli, Noventa Padua, Veneto. Detail. Italy, 18th century.

Flora and Putti, Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, undated, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 3/16 inches (16.4 × 20.8 cm), basket, chariot, clouds, garlands, goddess, nudes, procession, putti, reclining, religious and mythological subject, trees

Hephaestion and the god Hymen, detail from The Marriage of Alexander and Roxanne, 1517, fresco by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma (1477-1549), Agostino Chigi's wedding chamber, Villa Farnesina, Rome. Italy, 16th century.

SALON DE CONFERENCIAS - PINTURA MURAL DEL CUERPO INFERIOR - RIO "TAJO" - SIGLO XIX. Author: FRANCISCO AZNAR (1878-1927). Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Leda and the Swan, Isaac Oliver, ca. 1565-1617, French, active in Britain, undated, Brown wash, graphite, gouache, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (16.5 × 21.3 cm), curtain, lust, nudes, putti, religious and mythological subject, swan, woman

NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727). Physicist, mathematician and English astronomer. Discoverer of the laws of universal gravitation. Portrait made in 1795 by William BLAKE (1757-1827). Tate Gallery. London. England.

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516). Dutch school. Detail of the Garden of Earthly Delights (central panel): Garden of Earthly Delights (Ecclesia's Paradise). 1504. Oill on canvas (220 x 195 cm). Madrid, Prado museum. Credit: Album / Oronoz

'The Oath of the Tennis Court' (unfinished), detail, 1791-1792. Artist: Jacques-Louis David

EL DESPERTAR DE TITANIA - 1793/4 - O/L- 169x135 CM. Author: HENRY FUSELI o JOHANN FÜSSLI (1741-1825). Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. Zurich. Switzerland.

Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British, Relief Design for a Silver Salt Cellar, undated. Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, blued white laid paper.

Biblical Story, The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, Historical, Digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

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. Ephebe naked: nude young boy angel drape.

'The Assumption of the Virgin Mary' (detail), 1607-1613, Oil on canvas. Author: EL GRECO. Location: MUSEO HOSPITAL DE SANTA CRUZ. Toledo. SPAIN.

Biblische Szene, Bibel, Daniel in der Löwengrube, biblische Erzählung, in der der Prophet Daniel von eifersüchtigen Höflingen in eine Löwengrube geworfen wird, weil er sich weigert, ein neues Gesetz zu befolgen, das das Beten nur dem König erlaubt, Illustration, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Authentisch, Datei restauriert für optimale Verwendnung, genaues Datum der Vorlage unbekannt, Historisch Daniel in the lions den

Jerusalem, Plate 28 Proof Impression, Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, ca. 1820, Relief etching with pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, smooth wove paper, Sheet: 4 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches (11.1 x 15.9 cm), kissing, leaf, literary theme, nudes, religious and mythological subject, shells, sky, sun, water, women

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Saint Jerome, c 1610 1614 Saint Jerome

Satan Smiting Job with Boils, circle of John Linnell, 1792-1882, British, after William Blake, 1757-1827, British, undated, Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (9.5 x 12.1 cm), arrows, boils, crying, fear, ill, kneeling, nude, Old Testament, pain, religious and mythological subject, smiting, sunshine, wound

Pinturas de tema alegorico y mitologico en el techo.Salón de las Cariátides.Parlament de les Illes Balears, antiguo Círculo Mallorquín, 1852-1918. Palma. Mallorca. Balearic Islans. Spain.

National Museum of Ancient Art. The last judgment. The hell. Detail. Unknown master. 16th century. oil on oak panel.

Painting titled "Martyred Spain 1937" by Andre Fougeron

This painting belongs to the Florentine School, and was done by the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510). It hangs in the National Gallery in London. The theme is the Roman god of war, Mars (Ares to the Greeks), and the Roman goddess of love and beauty, Venus (Aphrodite to the Greeks). Painted in tempera on wood, it measures 2 feet 3 1/2 inches high by 5 five 8 inches in widde (.698 x 1.727). Venus, clothed in white and gold, is awake. Mars lies asleep. Four infant satyrs are playing about him; one trying to rouse him by blowing on a shell.

Study for ' The Oath of the Tennis Court' Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) French painter.

Allegory of April: Astrological Symbols of Taurus (Mese di Aprile: Simboli astrologici del Toro), by Francesco del Cossa, 1469-1470, 15th Century, fresco

The Judgment of Paris, c. 1585. Carletto Caliari (Italian, 1570-1596). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with brush and gray wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache; framing lines in green ink and red chalk (bottom); sheet: 39.2 x 51.1 cm (15 7/16 x 20 1/8 in.); secondary support: 39.2 x 51.1 cm (15 7/16 x 20 1/8 in.).

Nymph and Satyr, or Jupiter and Antiope, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, circa 1715-16, Musee du Louvre, Paris France, Europe

Open hand, detail from the Martyrdom of St Sebastian, by Paolo Caliari known as Veronese (1528-1588). Church of San Sebastiano, Venice.

Satan Exulting over Eve. William Blake (British, 1757 - 1827)

Allegorical scene - from Dantes Inferno. Norwid, Cyprian Kamil (1821-1883), painter

1530s 1530 MEDIEVAL PAINTING DEPICTING JUDGMENT OF PARIS GREEK MYTHOLOGY CHOOSING FAIREST AMONG HERA ATHENA AND APHRODITE

Arnold Böcklin (born 16 October 1827, died January 1901), Swiss painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor of Symbolism: Centaur Fight (19th century), Painting, Reproduction of the painting, Work of art, Historical, Mythological creatures in an intense battle, Dramatic scene

Austria, Vienna, The Last Judgment triptych, detail, 1482, oil on panel

Frescoes in the Camera della Badessa at the Convent of St Paolo in Parma, by Allegri Antonio known as Correggio, 1519, 16th Century, fresco. Italy, Emilia Romagna, Parma, Monastery of San Paolo, Camera della Badessa. Detail. Lunette monochrome Juno punished.

My Name is Legion James Tissot (1836-1902 French)

Antonello da Messina (Messina 1430 - Messina 1479). Cristo morto sorretto da tre angeli. 1476-1477 oil on poplar panel cm 115x85,5 .

DETALLE DEL PLANO DE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS - NEPTUNO EN EL MAR CON SIRENAS. Location: ALCAZAR / MUSEO DEL EJERCITO-COLECCIÓN. Toledo. SPAIN.

Relief on a mantelpiece, Adam and Eve's expulsion from paradise, Kemnade House, Hattingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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