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Mythological Figures in Art

A collection of artworks depicting mythological themes, including nymphs, satyrs, and figures from classical legends, characterized by dynamic poses and emotive expressions.

Two men carrying away a body, Jean Grandjean, 1765 - 1781, draughtsman: Jean Grandjean, 1765 - 1781, paper, h 528 mm × w 374 mm
Two men carrying away a body, Jean Grandjean, 1765 - 1781, draughtsman: Jean Grandjean, 1765 - 1781, paper, h 528 mm × w 374 mm
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Frieze ornament depicting the theme of reading and writing before 1783 French or German. Frieze ornament depicting the theme of reading and writing 190147 French or German, Frieze ornament depicting the theme of reading and writing, before 1783, Gilt bronze, 3 3/4 3 1/8 in. (9.5 7.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 (07.225.510.404)
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Nymph and cupid , Supernatural beings, Cupids, Nymphs Greek deities. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
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Group of bathers set before a hilly landscape, drawn with brown pen and brush washes by Cornelis van Poelenburch.
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Five cherubs sitting on clouds; Paedopaegnion ..
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Mercury Inventing the Lyre, John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812, British, after James Barry, 1741-1806, Irish, 1775, Mezzotint, Sheet: 12 11/16 x 14 1/2in. (32.2 x 36.8cm)
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Model for the wedding festivals at City Hall: Fame
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Copper engraving with two sound panels in light blue and blue by Domenico Beccafumi around 1545-1547 depicting a group of men and women, showing figures, attire, gestures, and interaction.
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One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis, Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-1882, British, undated, Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slighlty textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm), dog (animal), embracing, goddess, hunter, landscape, love, man, religious and mythological subject, tree
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Venus and Cupid. François Boucher (French, 1703 - 1770)
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Apollon recevant la lyre. Louis-Émile Durandelle (French, 1839 - 1917)
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Stande Victoria, Giulio Romano, 1525 - 1535 drawing paper. ink. chalk pen / brush
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Sleeping amor. Bust of a sleeping amor with a bow in the foreground.
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Drawing, Design for a Wall Decoration; Walter Shirlaw (American, b. Scotland, 1838-1909); USA; pastel on paper; 44.4 × 31.7 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
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Amour , Couples, Love. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings
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Judgment of Paris, after Raphael. Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483-1520 Rome). Dimensions: 9 x 12 3/4 in. (22.8 x 32.4 cm). Date: 1483-1520. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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THE BURIAL OF THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER
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The barricade, first stone , Barricades, Punishment & torture, Soldiers, Nudes, Raising hands. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings
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Hercules and Antaeus. Dated: late 15th - early 16th century. Dimensions: overall: 9.7 x 7.6 cm (3 13/16 x 3 in.) gross weight: 123 gr. Medium: bronze//Dark brown patina (rubbed on exposed surfaces). Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Attributed to Moderno.
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Apollo, 1637 - 1692 print Apollo is sitting on a stone staircase in nature. As God of the archers, he wears an arrow sleeve, De Lier he owns as a protection god of poetry and music, and as captain of the muses. Print from a series of four prints to Frescoes by Pietro da Cortona. Rome paper engraving (story of) Apollo (Phoebus)
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Ink over pencil drawing attributed to Kutschera between 1750-1800 showing Hercules saving Alkestis from Thanatos, depicting figures, action, and composition.
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Plate for Top of Pin Box. Alphonse Legros (French, 1837-1911). Etching;
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Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
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Cleopatra half naked lying on bed.
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Reclining Female Nude, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1658 print Lying naked woman, seen on the back, in the dark. paper etching / drypoint
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Mezzotint by Jakob Friedrich Clerck from 1793 showing Sleeping Venus with Cupido and a satyr, depicting mythological figures, posture, and composition on a sheet trimmed to plate edge.
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Emilia-Romagna Forli Rimini Palazzo Comunale, Museo e Pinacoteca Comunale8. 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.
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Print made by John Watts, active 1766-1786, Van Dyke in the Character of Icarus, 1778. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid paper.
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Mariano Salvador Maella / 'Child angels flying'. XVIII century. White chalk, Red chalk on grey paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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The chariot is drawn by two birds, Aurora on a chariot Nouveau Livre des Dieux et Deees De la Marine Bouckje of Sea Gods and Goddesses (series title), Hendrik de Keyser (I), print maker: anonymous, publisher: Justus Danckerts, Amsterdam, (possibly), after 1656 - 1701, paper, engraving, h 100 mm × w 207 mm
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Narcissus and Echo, by Unknown, 62 - 79, 1st Century, painted stucco. Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, from Pompeii. Whole artwork. Young woman naked breast boy man putti.
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Campania Caserta Caserta Palazzo Reale04. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture & architectural sculpture, sculpture, statues, paintings, frescoes, stuccoes, furnishings & decorative art General Notes: Discrepancy in number of prints & negatives. Hutzel notes 824 prints & negatives. Negatives for 1-62 of one batch seem to be missing (would make a total of 824) 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.
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Time and Truth. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696-1770 Madrid). Dimensions: 10-1/16 x 8-11/16 in. (25.5 x 22.1 cm). Date: 1696-1770. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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France, French crown, Delaune, Etienne, Combats et triomphes, Fight between Centaurs and Lapiths, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 66 mm, width 221 mm, French, 1519 - 1583, print maker, printmaker, 1528 - 1583, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), stipple work, granter of privilege
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Ramón Bayeu y Subías / 'Humility'. 1781. Black chalk, White chalk on green paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Study of human upper bodies, Leonard Schenk, 1710 - 1767 print Four different views of human upper bodies, two of which male and two female. The left man puts his leftam in the air and the woman next to him her right. The other woman wears a laurel wreath and holds her left arm up. The right man has lifted both arms. The print comes from a series of presumably twelve study examples for young artists. Amsterdam paper etching other anatomical details. other anatomical details - AA - female human figure. stretching (movement of the human body). stretching (movement of the human body) - AA - female human figure. arm raised upward
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The Flower Book - Day and Night. From The Flower Book, 1905. Sir Edward Burne-Jones .
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Nemesis, Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528, Engraving on white laid paper, The winged nude figure of a woman, standing, facing right, in profile; she holds a covered vessel in her right hand, a bridle in her left, and stands on a globe; view of a town below., Nuremberg, Germany, 1501-02, figures, Print, Print
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Scena mitologiczna. Larisch, Karol (1902-1935), painter
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Pyramus and Tisbe, by Unknown, 62 - 79, 1st Century, painted stucco. Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, From Pompeii. Whole artwork. Naked boy young girl Pyramus Tisbe tree death.
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Proportion study of the body of Hercules Farnese, Jan Punt, After Jacob de Wit, 1747 print Front view and a separate study of the arm. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving standing figure (canon, proportions) (+ front view). piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. (story of) Hercules (Heracles)
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Rider pierced by spear by Francesco de Rossi, Pen, brush, brown color on paper, 1510-1563, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 20x15
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A pencil drawing by Ignaz Unterberger depicting Hebe with Jupiters eagle, focusing on figures and mythological composition.
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A group of five dancers and a maenad who interrupted the dance is flanked by two maenads caring for a vomiting satyr, at left, and by a bacchant and two boys, at right. One of these mixes wine, the other drinks. The bacchant presses the juice of grapes into his mouth. Framing lines. Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and gray wash on laid paper. Date: ca. 1670-1684. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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Engraver and Etcher: Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian, 1659-1741, After: Francesco Albani, Italian, 1578-1660, Mercury, Etching and engraving, sheet: 35.2 × 27.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11in.), Italian, 18thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints
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Couple Standing in Water. Dated: 1915. Dimensions: plate: 27.5 x 19.9 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 31.8 x 25 cm (12 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.). Medium: etching printed in red on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Emile Bernard.
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The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Gemini. Artist: Philip Speakman Webb (d.1915). The 12 signs of the zodiac, designs for stained glass for a circular tracery light with a pencil diagram showing the position of each design in the tracery.
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Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children 1860 France. Pen and brown ink and opaque white and gray watercolors with white oil paint and black watercolor over black chalk on brown wove paper (Bristol board) . Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
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Francisco de Goya, Modo de volar (A Way of Flying), in or after 1816 Modo de volar (A Way of Flying)
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Parmigianino (Italian, 1503 - 1540), Three Feminine Heads, c. 1522-1524, red chalk on laid paper
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Troy Triptych - Study of Two Putti, 1870-1872. Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898)
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Celadon and Amelia from Thomson's 'The Seasons', Alexander Runciman, 1736-1785, British, undated, Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (15.6 x 23.8 cm), darkness, death, light, literary theme, man, woman
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Three putti; Cipriaan's principles of drawing; Cipriaan Rudiments or Drawing. Three putti side by side. The middle one on the back.
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Jupiter, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, Jupiter shown recumbent, one leg extended. He holds a plate with a drink for the eagle., Italy, 1804, classicism, Drawing, Drawing
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Heads Studies for 'Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen'. Artist: Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon (French, 1794-1874). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 11 7/8 in. (22.1 x 30.2 cm). Date: 1817. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Relief with Leda and the swan, anonymous, 1700 - 1800, draughtsman: anonymous, 1700 - 1800, paper, brush, h 580 mm × w 418 mm
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Photo production from an engraving to a fresco of two dancers in Pompeii, anonymous, c. 1870 - c. 1890 photograph paper albumen print print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph. picture, painting Pompeii
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The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Tormenting Ciampolo Inferno, canto XXII Made 1827 England. Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collÈ) . William Blake
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Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734-1802), Six Heads, a Turk in Front, etching
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Drawing, Study for Roundel with Putto Holding Attributes of Music; Pierre-Victor Galland (Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892); France; graphite and oil on canvas
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Johann Ladenspelder, Frieze of Ornament Frieze of Ornament
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No. 4365 Peinture Pompei, Photo reproduction of an engraving after a fresco in Pompeii: Dancers, No. 4365. Danseuse - Peinture Pompei, photograph, foto, foto's, height 253 mm, width 199 mm, photographer, 1870 - 1890, third quarter 19th century, fourth quarter 19th century, paper, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print
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Venus Awake, Louis Marin Bonnet, After François Boucher, 1769 - 1770 print Venus lying on a bed with a pigeon. print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching non-aggressive, friendly or neutral activities and relationships of Venus