Mythological Figures in Art

A collection of historical artworks depicting mythological themes, featuring figures like Venus and Adonis, with rich colors and classical styles.

Landscape with nymphs and Diana, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1647

RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Feast of Venus. ca. 1639. Flemish art. Oil on wood. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History).

Manuel Ramírez Ibáñez (Copy after: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)) / 'Sacred and Profane Love'. 1881 - 1882. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

The Birth of the Milky Way by Rubens, Pieter Paul (1577-1640) / Museo del Prado, Madrid / ca 1637 / Flanders / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 181x244 / Baroque

Dióscoro Puebla / El regreso, hadas del lago, siglo XIX. Palau de Justícia de Barcelona.

Suicide of Queen Dido, Anonymous, c. 1800

Iphigenie and Orest 1788 Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829 German) Oil on canvas Private Collection

Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia - Eugene Delacroix, circa 1840

The Toilette of Venus. Date/Period: 1629-01-01/1629-12-31. Painting. Oil on canvas. Width: 153 cm. Height: 183.8 cm. Author: SIMON VOUET.

The Fall of Man. In the left background we see God (a cloud with a human face and hands) cautioning Adam and Eve. They may eat the fruit of all of the trees, except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil’. Tempted by the serpent (with a human torso), Adam and Evenevertheless eat the forbidden fruit, for which they were driven from Paradise.

RAPTO DE EUROPA - 1580 - RENACIMIENTO ITALIANO. Author: PAOLO VERONESE. Location: DUCAL PALACE. Venedig. ITALIA.

French allegory of Athens and Hermes; Unknown Flemish painter, Sadeler, Jan I (1550-1600), Sadeler, Rafael, I (1561-1628 cars 1632), Aachen, Hans von (1552-1615); XVI/XVII century (1690-00-00-1710-00-00);Fiorentini, Piotr (1791-1858), Fiorentini, Piotr (1791-1858) - collections, France, Mercury (Mitol.), Minerva (Mitol.), School of Fine Arts (Warsaw - 1844-1864) - collections, allegories, gift (provenance), Flemish painting, graphic prototype, figural scenes

Carlo Saraceni (Venice ca.1579 - 1620). Venus and Mars (ca. 1600). Oil on copper. 39.5 x 55 cm. Museum: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Pharaoh's Daughter discovers Moses in the Rush Basket. Dating: c. 1635 - c. 1638. Measurements: support: h 131.5 cm × w 114.2 cm; t 3.5 cm; d 7.3 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Paulus Bor. Cornelis Hendriksz. Vroom.

Diana's Rest by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Oil on canvas, Early 17th century, 1568-1625, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Open-air Museum Palace Gatchina, 93x60

Fuessli/Die Nachtmahr verlaesst Lager/1793 - -

José Camarón Bonanat / 'Couples in a Park', ca. 1785, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 83 cm x 108 cm, P06733. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

The Golden Age or rather the peaceful life of a young man in flourishing nature, detail from The Four Ages of Man, 1637-1640, by Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), fresco. Stove Room in the Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

Vecellio di Gregorio Tiziano / 'The Worship to Venus', 1518-1519, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 172 cm x 175 cm, P00419. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Cain and Abel, Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1587-1622)

Aphrodite by Jean Hugues Taraval, oil on canvas, 1729-1785, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 100x82

Der getreue Ekkehard, Gemälde von Arthur Fitger / The faithful Ekkehard, painting by Arthur Fitger, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original artwork from the time / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus der damaligen Zeit, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

The rest of Diana among the Nymphs (Il riposo di Diana tra le Ninfe), by Charles-Andre van Loo (1705-1765), fresco, vaulted ceiling of the bedroom, Queen's apartment, Hunting residence (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1997), by Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736), Stupinigi, Piedmont, Italy, 18th century, detail.

Poetry and Painting, Giovanni, Giovanni da San, 1626.

Spedalingo Altarpiece, Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540)

Bacchus feast by Pieter Paul Rubens, oil on canvas, 1638-1640, 1577-1640, Russia, St. Petersburg , State Hermitage, 191x161, 3

Nymph and Satyr' by jean-antoine watteau, c1715. From the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.

P.P.Rubens, Leda and the swan

'Venus en Reflexion', (Venus in Thought), c1785, (1913). Artist: Jean Francois Janinet.

Achilles vertoornd op Agamemnon The Wrath of Achilles. Date/Period: 1630 - 1635. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 448 mm (17.63 in); Width: 460 mm (18.11 in). Author: PETER PAUL RUBENS.

Scene from the myth of Cupid and Psyche, 1794, by Felice Giani (1758-1823), tempera wall painting, Palazzo Laderchi, Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. Italy, 18th century.

Cupid abandoning Psyche. Charles Antoine Coypel (1694-1752). Pastel on grey-blue paper. Executed in 1736. 82 x 65cm.

'The Three Graces', 1639. Artist: Peter Paul Rubens.

Diana and Actaeon. Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte); Italian, c. 1510-1592. Date: 1580-1590. Dimensions: 25 × 27 in. (63.6 × 68.7 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

The Dream after the Ball Hans Makart Austrian. The Dream after the Ball 436937

Oberon & Titania: Midsummer Night's Dream Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1900 British)

Armida Gazes on the Sleeping Rinaldo. Date/Period: Ca. 1785. Drawing. Black, white, yellow, orange, blue, brown, and gray chalks on heavy cream laid paper Black, white, yellow, orange, blue, brown, and gray chalks on heavy cream laid paper. Height: 315.21 mm (12.40 in); Width: 441.45 mm (17.37 in). Author: GIUSEPPE CADES.

Netherlands: 'Bathsheba at Her Toilet'. Oil on canvas painting by Cornelis Corneliszoon Van Haarlem (1562 - 11 November 1638), 1594. This scene is taken from the Book of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, or the Christian Old Testament. King David of Israel looked out of his palace one evening and saw Bathsheba bathing, assisted by her two servants. He immediately fell in love with her. Although she was married - the wife of Uriah the Hittite - King David was smitten by her beauty and seduced her, making her pregnant. He had Uriah killed, then took Bathsheba to be his wife, beginning his downfall.

'Mars and Venus', late 16th-early 17th century. Artist: Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that the illness of Antiochus (son of Seleucus I) is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose when ever he saw her. Coloured engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1772, after Pietro da Cortona.

The Fountain of Love, Jean-Honore Fragonard, circa 1785, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA, North America

Venus and Mars, ca 1485-1486, by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), tempera on panel, 69x173 cm, 5.

Diana sitting with a handmaid by a lake , Lakes & ponds, Nudes

Artist: Jacob van Loo, Dutch, 1614-1670, Bacchus andAriadne, ca.1650, Oil on canvas, unframed: 167.64 × 142.24 cm (66 × 56 in.), Not onview, Dutch, 17thcentury, Paintings

Mercury appears to Aeneas in a dream to order him to go to Carthage, by Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Room of the Aeneid, Villa Valmarana 'Ai Nani', Vicenza.

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614-1691) Crowned by Apollo 1641 Andrea Sacchi Italian A celebrated male soprano, Pasqualini is crowned by Apollo, who had been victorious in a musical contest with the satyr Marsyas (shown in the background, defeated and tied to a tree with his bagpipes beside him). Pasqualini joined the choir of the Sistine Chapel in 1630, and from 1632 was a protagonist in many operas produced at the Palazzo Barberini. Sacchi designed sets for some of these. The singer plays an upright harpsichord decorated with the figures of Daphne and a bound satyr; Apollo is loosely based on the famous ancient sculpture known as the Apollo Belvedere.. Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614-1691) Crowned by Apollo 437593

Jacob Jordaens / 'The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus', Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 181 cm x 288 cm, P01634. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Giulia faints on seeing the bloodied mantle of Pompeo, by Mei Bernardino, 17th Century, oil on canvas,

Bacchus and Ariadne, decorative detail from a storied tile, by Carmine Gentile (1678-1763), ceramic, Castelli manufacture, Abruzzo. Italy, 18th century.

Hecuba and Polyxena. Merry-Joseph Blondel (France, Paris, 1781-1853). France, after 1814. Paintings. Oil on canvas

Abraham 1740/45. (Jacopo Amigoni 1682 Naples Madrid-1752)

Unknown artist. Venus and Cupid, 1600s. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Fine Arts. Valletta. Malta.

Beaugency, France one of the eight embroidery of the 17th century in the Hall of the Hall of the Town Hall. The four parts of the world: Europe , 1915-Center of France, Loiret, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher-Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon-(August) (French - Beaugency , France L' une des huit broderies du XVIIème siècle de la salle d' honneur de l' hôtel de Ville. Les quatre parties du monde : l' Europe). Carpets , hanging, decorative arts, textile work, Art, France, Beaugency, woolen embroidery imitating the tapestry: Europe represented by France

Agnolo di Cosimo (1503 1572), known as Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time Allegory of the Triumph of Venus 1540-45.

Bathsheba at the Fountain c. 1635; oil on oak panel, by Peter Paul Rubens (15771640). Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen in Germany, but from the age of 10 he lived and went to school in Antwerp, Belgium, where he became an important Flemish Artist.

The Golden Age 1605 Joachim Wtewael Netherlandish The Utrecht painter Joachim Wtewael was among the most sophisticated of Netherlandish Mannerists, as is evident from this exquisite cabinet picture on copper, dated 1605. The subject is taken from the opening pages of Ovid's Metamorphoses (I, 89 ff.), which describe a time before the ages of silver, bronze, and iron when "spring was everlasting.. streams of sweet nectar flowed," and mankind, "without a law," did right and lived contentedly.. The Golden Age 437955

Detail from the fresco cycle Stories of Cupid and Psyche, by Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) and his assistants, Loggia of Cupid and Psyche, Villa Farnesina, Rome. Italy, 16th century.

'Allegorical Family Portrait'. Flanders, Early 1650s. Dimensions: 178,4x152,3 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: JACOB JORDAENS.

The Vision of Saint Bruno; Pier Francesco Mola (Italian, 1612 - 1666); Italy; about 1660; Oil on canvas; 194 × 136.8 cm (76 3,8 × 53 7,8 in.)

The Juno bathing or Juno attired by the Graces, by Andrea Appiani (1754-1817), oil on canvas, 100x142 cm.

Bacchante by Maikov, Nikolai Apollonovich (1794-1873)/ Regional Art Museum, Rostov on Don/ 1840-1850/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 158x145/ Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Group of six loves playing with flowers Jean-François Clermont (said Ganif). "Group of six love playing with flowers". Oil on canvas (door top), around 1761. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.

Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). Was a Flemish Baroque artist. Susanne and the Elders. 1621. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany.

Sebastien Bourdon; French; Montpellier 1616-1671 Paris; The Baptism of Christ; Oil on canvas.

Sleeping cupid, Anonymous, Southern Netherlands

Allegory of Nature as the Mother of Art, Jan van Hemessen, 1540 - 1557 painting A young man and woman sat in a landscape under a tree. The man holds a bow in his right hand; In his left a Viola da Gamba. The woman sprinkles the instrument with milk from her left chest. In the background central a castle or walled city built in a water. On the right in the background a shepherd with his herd. panel. oil paint (paint) 'Natura' (allegorical figure or scene; or as Diana of Ephesus, with many breasts); 'Natura' (Ripa). breasts giving milk - AA - female human figure. 'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica'(Ripa). viola, violoncello; double bass - CC - out of doors

Cephalus and Procris; 1710/12 Jean Raoux; French (1677 Montpellier -1734 Paris)

The Infant Hercules With A Serpent. The young Hercules kills the two snakes lying in his cradle. In the background on the left a window overlooking a landscape, right a painting or relief. Pendant of SK-C-268.

The preparations of the war or the apprits of love Pierre-Paul Prudhon. "The preparations for war or lovers of love". Oil on canvas. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.

The Bath of the Nymphs - Jan Brueghel the Elder

Diana the Huntress. Madrid, Prado museum. Author: PETRUS PAULUS RUBENS / PAUL DE VOS. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. DIANA CAZADORA-DIOSA EN LA MITOLOGIA ROMANA.

La Nuit et l'Aurore (Night and Dawn) by Champaigne, Jean-Baptiste de (1631-1681) / Louvre, Paris /France / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 144x189 / Baroque

Putto holding bow by Sodoma , oil on canvas, circa 1510, 1477-1549, Russia, St. Petersburg , State Hermitage, 68x129

Man attacking a monster, Attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740-1779, British

Angelika Kauffmann (Maria Anna Angelika Katharina Kauffmann) (1741-1807). Swiss painter. Beauty directed by Prudence, wreathed by Perfection. Beauty is represented by a young woman dressed in white, and Perfection by a handsome young man. Along with Beauty, there is maternal Prudence. Oil on canvas, 1780. Diameter: 64,77 cm. Kadriorg Art Museum. Tallinn, Estonia. On loan, from Art Museum of Estonia (Eesti Kunstimuuseum), Tallinn.

Aphrodite and Cupid by unknown artist, Oil on canvas, 1729, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Open-air Museum Palace Gatchina, 86x58

Satyr and Nymph Satyr and Nymph, Gerard van Honthorst, oil on canvas, 1623, Amsterdam, Netherlands Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21697137

Aurora Trionephing over Night; about 1755-56 Oil on canvas Jean-Honore Fragonard French; 1732-1806

Allegory. Dated: c. 1530. Dimensions: overall: 43 x 39.2 cm (16 15/16 x 15 7/16 in.) framed: 63.5 x 59.1 x 6.4 cm (25 x 23 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.). Medium: oil on panel. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Venetian 16th Century.

Caesar's Death Makes Cleopatra Mourn from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra Made 1675-1685 Flanders. Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave . Geraert Peemans (Manufacturer)

Cimon and Pero Cimon and Pero, at. Willlem Drost, oil on canvas, 1656-57, Amsterdam, Netherlands Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21697262

Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus. Date/Period: 1774. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 63.8 cm (25.1 in); Width: 90.9 cm (35.7 in). Author: Angelica Kauffman.

Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom. Date/Period: 1848-1851. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 820 mm (32.28 in); Width: 1,330 mm (52.36 in). Author: Edwin Henry Landseer.

Giambattista Tiepolo / 'The Stigmatization of Saint Francis', 1767-1769, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 278 cm x 153 cm, P07096. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Painting titled 'Saint Sebastian' by El Greco (1541-1614) a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.

Julia og Fulvia. Date/Period: 1800. Painting. Olje på lerret. Width: 46.5 cm. Height: 47 cm. Author: Nicolai Abildgaard.

Amor and Psyche / Painting

Caesar's Death Leaves Cleopatra in Mourning, painting by Justus van Egmont, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period.

'Death of Cato of Utica'. France, 1795. Dimensions: 149,5x226 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Guillaume Guillon-Lethière.

Feast of Achelous by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 - 1625); Oil on wood; circa 1615

Vecellio di Gregorio Tiziano / 'Venus with an Organist and a Dog', ca. 1550, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 138 cm x 222,4 cm x 3,5 cm, P00420. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

L'Amitié reste, or Friendship Remains. A young woman passionately holds what is presumably a love letter to her lips as Cupid with his bow flies above her accompanied by two doves. Doves can be a sym

Guido Reni / 'Cupid', 1637-1638, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 101 cm x 88 cm, P00150. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. CUPID.

Adam and Eve , Fine Art

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, anonymous, c. 1575 painting Joseph and the wife of Potifar. The naked woman tries to lure Joseph into her bed. On the ground a falling can and a barking dog on the left can. Pendant of SK-A-1287. In the background a maid is shocked at the door, just before that a cat plays with a mouse. Southern Netherlands panel. oil paint (paint) Potiphar's wife catches Joseph by his robe, usually while lying in bed; Joseph escapes leaving his cloak behind in her hands (possibly with a naked child lying in a crib)

Apparitions of the Archangel Michael, by Cignani Carlo, 1665, 17th Century, fresco. Italy, Emilia Romagna, Bologna, San Michele in Bosco Church. Whole artwork. Painted architecture putti holding curtain tondo frame apparition Michael archangel white blue gold.

Painting titled 'Coast View with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl' by Claude Lorrain. Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) a French painter, draughtsman and engraver. Dated 17th Century

LA POMONA. Location: BANCO DE ESPAÑA-COLECCION ARTE. MADRID. SPAIN.

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Massimo Palace National Museum, Pompeian Red Exhibition, Fresco, Vesuvian Area.

Portrait of a Lady as Diana returning from the Hunt. Nicolas Colombel (1644-1717). Oil on copper. Painted in 1698. 65.7 x 81.1cm.

My Livian trophies and a dog; Fijt, Joannes (1611-1661); 2. PO. XVII century (1650-00-00-1699-00-00);Cages for birds, copies, Flemish painting, Osset (bot.), Dog, Birds, Hunting Trophies

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