Mythological Heroes in Engravings

Engravings of mythological scenes featuring heroes like Hercules, showcasing dramatic struggles and classical themes in Renaissance art.

Rome, Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de', Italy, Carracci, Ludovico, Agostino, Annibale, Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, L'Enea Vagante pitture dei Caracci, Wanderings of Aeneas, Man Subduing a Harpy, verso - stamped, Console with a Nude Man, One of the Soldiers of Aeneas, Sitting on a Harpy., print, prints, height 335 mm, width 206 mm, Italian, 1634 - 1718-02-08, print maker, printmaker, 1663 - 1663, paper, papier, etching, etchings, 1560-11-03 - 1609-07-15, after a painting by, 1557 - 1602-03-22, 1555 - 1619-11-13, 1627 - 1691, printer

This early 16th-century copper engraving by Nicoletto da Modena depicts Fortuna, the personification of luck and fate.

Nuremberg, Solis, Virgilius, Leda and the swan, verso - handwritten in brown ink, print, prints, verso - stamped, 108, height 50 mm, width 95 mm, print maker, 1524 - 1612, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), plate tone, Work conception, German, 1514 - 1562-08-01

Kneeling Putto with Waterkan, Cornelis Schut (I), 1618 - 1655 print A kneeling putto pours water from a jug, based on one of his hands. At the top left the text 'Consumar ... et perdo'. paper etching / engraving container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase. pouring. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Diana. Jacob Matham (Holland, Haarlem, 1571-1631). Holland, 1607-1610. Prints; engravings. Engraving

Two putti with a rose bush in pot, Pietro Antonio Cotta, After Guido Reni, 1675 - 1685 print Italy paper etching cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. shrubs: rose-bush. potted plants

Amsterdam, King, Wilhelmus, Goltzius, Hendrick, Matham, Jacob, The seven planets series B, Luna, Moon (Diana), Diana, or the personified moon, with bow and arrow and on her head the crescent moon. To her left her astronomical symbol. Standing in an oval cartouche with the two signs at the top: Moon and Cancer., print, prints, height 118 mm, width 77 mm, Work conception, Northern Netherlands, 1571-10-15 - 1631-01-20, after a print by, 1597 - 1597, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, - 1732, publisher

Hercules and Antaeus. Hercules in battle with antaeus. Antaeus is lifted by Hercules from the ground. An antique temple in the background.

Depicts three women in a bathing room, executed as a copper engraving by Sebald Beham in 1548, showing figures, interior, and objects.

Giulio Campagnola (Italian, 1482-1515) after Ludwig Krug (German, 1490 - 1532). Allegory of Birth and Death: Two Naked Women with Skull and Hourglass, early 16th century. Engraving. Third state.

Saenredam, Jan, work, Neptune and Amphitrite, (1000 - 2004), copper engraving, graphics, leaf width 21.8 cm, leaf height 32.5 cm

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Jerusalem, Plate 47, "From Camberwell to Highgate....", 1804 to 1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Vanitas performance with child and skull (hodi mihi kras tibi / present me, tomorrow you), hieronymus cock, after anonymous, c. 1550 - c. 1570 print Vanitas performance, on a stone tomb are a skull and bones and a nude boy. There is an hourglass next to his head. On the wall and on the tomb are cartouches with references to transience in Dutch and Latin. Antwerp paper engraving skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'. 'Vanitas' symbols. grave, tomb

Female and Male Sater, Georg Pencz, 1510 - 1550 print Both saters are sitting on a dolphin on either side of a vase with leaf vines. Shaded background. One of two magazines. Germany (possibly) paper engraving

Hercules and the Cretan Bull. Dated: c. 1514/1515. Dimensions: sheet: 21.4 x 15.7 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/16 in.). Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Antonio da Brescia.

Adam und Eva im Garten Eden Aus Der Todten Tanz oder The Dance of Death erschienen in Basel 1843, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden From Der Todten Tanz or The Dance of Death published Basel 1843, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Mucius, Albrecht altdorfer, c. 1506 - 1538 print The Roman hero Mucius Scaevola puts his right hand in the fire. Germany paper engraving Gaius Mucius Scaevola before Porsena: he thrusts his right hand into the flames (the body of the king's secretary who erroneously had been killed instead of Porsena may be seen lying on the ground)

Venus. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Johann Ladenspelder.

Italy, Raphael, Caraglio, Giovanni Jacopo, Aeneas flees Troy with his family, verso - stamped, Aeneas flees the burning Troy with his father Anchises on his back. On the right walks Ascanius, the son of Aeneas., print, prints, height 230 mm, width 167 mm, Work conception, Italian, 1505 - 1565, after print by, 1515 - 1565, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker, 1483-04-07 - 1520-04-07

Venus and Amor. Venus sitting at a tree in a mountainous landscape. In addition to her, Amor has appeared with his arrow and bow and her chin caresses. On the right in the foreground two brilliant pigeons.

Caltnadel by Meister von 1515, early 16th century, depicting Hercules interacting with a philosopher, illustrating classical mythology and allegorical symbolism.

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Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows a female centaur or centauress carrying a bacchant carrying a thyrsus or staff. The centauress holds a sprig of foliage in her left hand and with her right hand drapes a garland under the bacchant's arm. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

Judith Seated in an Arch. 1547. Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Laocoön. Etching by F. Perrier, 1638.

Two Boys Playing with a Dog. Artist: Barthel Beham (German, Nuremberg ca. 1502-1540 Italy). Dimensions: Sheet: 1 3/8 × 1 1/8 in. (3.5 × 2.8 cm). Date: mid-17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Johann Ladenspelder, Venus Venus

Plate 10: Nymphs dressing Psyche's hair, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius 1530-60 Master of the Die Italian This book contains 32 plates bound together, 3 of which are by Agostino Veneziano.. Plate 10: Nymphs dressing Psyche's hair, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius. The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius. Master of the Die (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1530-60). 1530-60. Engraving. Antonio Salamanca (Salamanca 1478-1562 Rome). Prints

Iusticia (Justice). Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Master IB.

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

Barendsz., Dirck, Keulen, Sadeler, Johann (I), The four parts of the day, Vespera, Evening, verso lower left - stamped, In the clouds the naked Vespera, the personification of the evening. On her head a crescent moon. Below her a landscape in the evening with in the foreground some poachers. They are looking for birds that have become entangled in their nets. In the background workers are returning home after a day's work. In the margin a Latin caption with an explanation about the evening. The print is part of a four-part series on the parts of the day and the human activities that take place during that part of the day., print, prints, height 185 mm, width 229 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1582 - 1582, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Northern Netherlands, 1534 - 1592-05-26

Suzanna and the two elders, Jan Swart of Groningen, 1540 - 1550, The naked Suzanna sits with her feet in a small lake. She looks up, startled, at the two old men who have given themselves access to the court and are bending over to her. To the right, a stone pedestal holds a sponge and a jug. A castle can be seen in the back right. Design for a glass panel., draughtsman: Jan Swart van Groningen, 1540 - 1550, paper, pen, brush, h 269 mm × w 195 mm

The fall, Lucas van Leyden, 1504 - 1508 print Eva and Adam sitting at the foot of a tree. Eva with two fruits, one to Adam. In Boom a devil with a snake tail. Low Countries paper engraving Eve offers the fruit to Adam

Study sheet with drawing examples: heads, animals, figures; Drawing examples. Seventeenth print from a series of drawing examples of unknown size. Study sheet with heads, animals, figures. Bottom left Portrait of Raphaël and also a portrait of Lucas Faydherbe. Above left Portrait of Maria Ruthven and Haas with Horns. At the top right figure from the last judgment of Michelangelo, with a parrot in addition. At the bottom right various figures, including lying man with donkey.

Triton in battle with a sea monster; Reliefs in the Loggia of Rafael. A triton, with a naked women's figure on his back, battle with a sea monster.

Four Putti representing the Four Elements 1605-38 Rudolf Meyer Swiss. Four Putti representing the Four Elements 380393

Kneeling putto with water gun. A kneeling putto serves water from a can, based on one of his hands. At the top left the text 'Consumar ... et perdo'.

Eight Boys Artist's working dates 1520-1550 Germany. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Hans Sebald Beham

The Shepherd. Dated: 1525. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Sebald Beham.

Two grotesken. Two grotesque figures: the left with bird fleet, the right with kind of pork head on people with bird legs, a knots in hand. From series of 12.

Venice, Bembo, Giovanni, Fialetti, Odoardo, Scherzi d'amore, Scenes with Venus and Amor, Venus blindfolds Amor, verso - stamped, Venus and Amor in a landscape. Venus blindfolds Amor. Italian verse in bottom margin., print, prints, height 177 mm, width 95 mm, Italian, 1573-07-18 - 1638, print maker, printmaker, 1617 - 1617, paper, papier, etching, etchings, 1543 - 1618, granter of privilege

De Drie Gratiën, Agostino Carracci, c. 1590 - c. 1595 print The three graces standing in a landscape. Italy paper engraving Graces (Charites), generally three in number; 'Gratie' (Ripa)

Copper engraving by Sebald Beham depicting eight naked children.

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: The Three Graces ca. 1515-27 Marco Dente Italian This print comes from the museums copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, cli

Venus and Cupid stoke a fire; Veneris Amor Cupidinis favor. .

Silenus with flora and zephyrus. Silenus stands with a basket with grapes between flora with a flower wreath on her head and her partner Zephyrus blowing on a horn.

Heinrich Aldegrever, Luna Luna

Three bare boys.

Two cherubs dancing with a small boy, not by Hollar. Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607-1677 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 7 13/16 in. (13.5 × 19.8 cm). Date: 1625-77.Two cherubs dancing with a small boy. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Putti; New Teecken-Boeck. Do not cut sheet with two performances. On the left two naked putti from behind, on the right two putti whose one cloth allows one cloth around the shoulders. Legal under numbered 3 and 4, the straight representation lower under numbered 24. Sheet for "New Teecken-Boeck. Second part".

Young Hercules Killing the Snakes Albrecht Altdorfer German. Young Hercules Killing the Snakes 430172

Dance of Cupids Danse d' Amours. Raphael, 1483-1520. 1501 - 1525. Raimondi, Marcantonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Woman with a Harp 1520-1530 Germany. Who is this female harpist, sitting solemnly in a wooded landscape Is she a muse A goddess Just an ordinary woman The viewer is left to speculate, as there are not enough clues to know for certain. Hans Sebald Beham, one of the so-called German Little Masters, produced prints such as this one that create a sense of intimacy through their small scale and the proximity of their subjects to the picture plane. This etching is even smaller than many of his prints, obliging viewers to come close to observe the details.. Etching in black on ivory laid paper . Hans Sebald Beham

A Savage Man Hans-Leonard Schäufelein (German, ca. 1480-ca. 1540). A Savage Man. Woodcut on wove paper, 9 15/16 x 5 3/8 in. (25.2 x 13.6 cm). European Art

Faith. Artist: Anonymous, German, 16th century (Nuremberg). Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in. (14 x 9.3 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Taste (Gustus), from The Five Senses Georg Pencz German. Taste (Gustus), from The Five Senses. The Five Senses. Georg Pencz (German, Wroclaw ca. 1500-1550 Leipzig). Engraving; first state of two (Landau). Prints

Burner for incense or perfume worn by Caratids, Marcantonio Raimondi, After Rafaël, 1515 - 1525 print Italy paper engraving incense-burner ~ scents, perfumes. caryatids ~ architecture. ornamenting, decorating ~ applied arts

Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket, detail (copy) n.d. After Lucas van Leyden Netherlandish. Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket, detail (copy) 364827

Amor steals the shield of Mars, Agostino Veneziano (Possible), After Rafaël, 1500 - 1536 print paper engraving (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). attributes of Mars

Fabel van de Boer and De Sater, Abraham Blotling, 1652 - 1690 print To a fable from Aesopus. A Sater invites a farmer in his house. He finds his behavior incomprehensible: the farmer blows in his hands to warm them up, and he blows over the soup to cool it down. That is why he regards the farmer as a wizard and sends him out of his house. Amsterdam paper etching the satyr and the peasants; according to Aesop: the satyrs and the peasant (meal, blowing to cool food, etc.)

The Three Graces, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Francesco Giomignani from a drawing by Campana, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume III, plate 11, 1757-1787, Naples.

Three naked boys, Giacomo Francia, 1510 - 1530 print Italy paper engraving male infant. the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa)

Depicts a woman with two children in a bathing room, executed as a copper engraving by Sebald Beham, showing figures, interior, and objects.

Woodcut by Lucas Hugensz. van Leyden depicting 'The Fall', created around 1514, with retouching using spring or black brush, showing figures in a dramatic scene.

fine arts, D™rer, Albrecht, (1471 - 1528), graphics, ""Adam und Eva im Paradies"" (""Adam and Eve in paradise""), circa 1505, engraving, private collection, Europe, religious art, religion, christianity, biblical scene, renaissance, nude, naked, nakedness, Duerer, Durer,

Two Fencers, from Fencers, plate 7 1552 Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert Netherlandish. Two Fencers, from Fencers, plate 7 405628

Fortitude; Giovanni Bellini, Italian, about 1431/1436 - 1516; Venice, Italy, Veneto, Europe; about 1470; Pen and brown ink; 8.7 x 8.9 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/2 in.)

Apollo. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century. Dimensions: 9-9/16 x 5-11/16 in. (24.3 x 14.4 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Vertumnus and Pomona, Jacques de Gheyn (II) (School of), 1575 - 1679 drawing Both figures halfway; Vertumnus bends her head to Pomona as if she whispers something in her ear. paper. ink pen Vertumnus and Pomona

Pierre Lélu drawing depicting Venus and Amphitrite, executed in ink with feather, reddish tones, and wash.

Die griechischen Götter Dioscori, die Halb- und Zwillingsbrüder Kastor und Polydeukes, Marmorstatue aus dem antiken Rom, Italien, digitale Reproduktio...

Coxie, Michiel (I), Italy, Master of the Dobbelsteen, Story of Amor and Psyche, Amor and Psyche together in the wedding bed, verso - stamped, Amor and Psyche lie in the wedding bed. While Psyche lies asleep, Amor looks out of the open window on the left. Italian text in two cartouches in the lower margin. Numbered lower left: 32., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 194 mm, width 225 mm, Italian, German, print maker, printmaker, 1530 - 1560, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), plate tone, Work conception, Southern Netherlands, 1499 - 1592-03-10

Amor and psyche together in the wedding bed; Story of Amor and Psyche. Amor and psyche are in the wedding bed. While Psyche is sleeping, Amor looks from the open window on the left. Italian text in two cartouches in undermarge. Numbered bottom left: 32.

Hélène and Judith, siamese twins, known as the Hungarian sisters. Etching by B. Cole.

Amor and Psyche together in the marriage bed, master of the Dobbelsteen, after Michiel Coxie (I), c. 1530 - c. 1560 print Amor and Psyche are in the marriage bed. While Psyche is sleeping, Amor looks left out of the open window. Italian text in two cartouches in STUDMARGE. Numbered bottom left: 32. Italy paper engraving Cupid and Psyche as lovers

This late 15th to early 16th-century copper engraving by Giovanni Antonio da Brescia shows five children dancing and playing, depicting gestures, clothing, and early Italian printmaking.

The Fall of Man, fresco in the Vatican, by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, also Raffael da Urbino, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello Sanzio, Raphael, Italian painter, Italy, digitally restored reproduction of a work of art (public domain) from c. 1500, Europe

Attributed to Moderno, The Death of Lucretia, late 15th early 16th century The Death of Lucretia

The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is lying dead on her bed, mourned by a servant. Etching by G.B. Cipriani after B. Cellini.

Virgil. The Aeneid. Book IV. Mercury appears to Aeneas in a dream: Mercury visits Aeneas to tell him that he has delayed too long his mission and he must leave at once from Carthage to Italy. Engraving after relief in bronze by Henry Bates. "La Ilustracion Iberica", 1886.

Two children playing, master of the Amsterdam cabinet, 1470 - 1475 print One toddler is sitting, the other tries to stand on his head. Germany paper drypoint toddler (male). playing toddler; child amusing itself

The Bewitched Groom 1539-1549 Germany. Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper . Hans Baldung Grien

Hat-Badge with Apollo and Marsyas (or possibly Orpheus). Dated: mid 16th century. Dimensions: diameter: 5.8 cm (2 1/4 in.). Medium: enamel on copper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: French 16th Century.

Copper engraving by Matthäus Zasinger (Meister MZ) from around 1500 depicting Memento Mori, showing a symbolic reminder of mortality with skull and objects.

Pieta 1800-1900 Anonymous, Italian, 19th century Italian. Pieta 390076

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