Mythological Paintings

A collection of dramatic mythological scenes showcasing intense action and emotion. Rich colors and baroque elements depict gods and heroes in various dynamic confrontations.

Coronation of Marie de Medici at St. Denis, (Life of Marie de Medici, Queen of France) by Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), France, Paris, Musee du Louvre

The Queen's Reconciliation with Her Son (Life of Marie de Medici, Queen of France) c.1622 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640/Flemish) Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Hercules fighting Achelous. Bertin, Nicolas (1668-1736), painter, Massé, Samuel (1672-1753), painter

Conversion of Saul, 1540-1545, by Andrea Schiavone (ca 1500-1563), oil on canvas, 205x265 cm.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). German-born Flemish Baroque painter. Massacre of the Innocents, 1635-40. Version Pinakothek. Munich. Germany.

Coronation of Marie de Medici at St. Denis, (Life of Marie de Medici, Queen of France) by Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), France, Paris, Musee du Louvre

Diana and Virtus Punish Venus and Bacchus, T. van Malsen, 1694 painting Diana and Virtus punish Venus and Bacchus. The personification of virtue (or temperantia, moderation) Has a Breidel in the left hand and donates with the right hand from a jug. Diana holds a crescent moon in the left hand. Venus and Bacchus roll on the ground between surrounded jugs. Links Cupido with a pigeon. canvas. oil paint (paint) (story of) Diana (Artemis). (story of) Venus (Aphrodite). (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber. Virtus as Roman personification

Collecting Ambergris, 1570-1571, by Giovanni Battista Naldini (1537-ca 1591). Studiolo (small study) of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Italy, 16th century.

The Rape of the Sabines, Anonymous, 17th century, oil on board, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Flight into Egypt', c1566-1611. Artist: Bartholomeus Spranger. Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611) was a Flemish Mannerist painter, draughtsman, sculptor and designer of prints.

Giaquinto, Corrado (1703-1766) National Gallery, London Painting 136,5x95 Bible The Brazen Serpent

The Glorification of Saint Dominic. Dating: 1710 - 1785. Measurements: h 149 cm × w 75 cm × t 3.8 cm; d 6 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Francesco Solimena (copy after).

'Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents'. Great Britain, 1786. Dimensions: 303x297 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

The Hunt of Diana by Giordano, Luca (1632-1705) / Louvre, Paris /Italy, School of Neaple / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 118,5x137 / Baroque

Rebecca's Journey, by attributed to Giordano Luca, 17th Century, oil on canvas, cm 254 x 306

Allegory of Certaldo. Date/Period: 1563 - 1565. Oil painting on wood. Height: 250 mm (9.84 in); Width: 250 mm (9.84 in). Author: Giorgio Vasari.

The Assumption of the Virgin. Dated: probably mid 1620s. Dimensions: overall (image only, without wooden shims): 123.5 x 92 cm (48 5/8 x 36 1/4 in.) overall (with wooden shims): 125.4 x 94.4 cm (49 3/8 x 37 3/16 in.) framed: 157.5 x 125.7 x 8.3 cm (62 x 49 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on panel. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

'The Metal Serpent', 1618-1620, Oil on canvas, 207 cm x 234 cm, P01637. Author: ANTON VAN DYCK. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. MOSES.

Glorification of the Corsini family, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani (1652-1726).

Judith Displaying the Head of Holofernes, painting made by Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705), Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 17th-century original, exact date unknown .

Pedro Pablo Rubens / 'Adoration of the Magi', 1609; 1628-1629, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 355,5 cm x 493 cm, P01638. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. Author: PETER PAUL RUBENS.

The Judgment of Jupiter, supreme deity of the Roman religion, painting by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), The Judgment of Jupiter, painting by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original

The Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1612-14 El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) and Workshop Greek This is a smaller version of an altarpiece by El Greco painted for the chapel in Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, where he was buried (the picture is now in the Prado, Madrid). It is likely that for this work the painter was helped by his assistants.. The Adoration of the Shepherds. El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) and Workshop (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1541-1614 Toledo). ca. 1612-14. Oil on canvas. Paintings

'Entry of David into Jerusalem'. Flanders, 1630s. Dimensions: 69,5x111,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: FRANS FRANCKEN II.

Allegory of the Poet. Jacob Jordaens (Flanders (now Belgium), Antwerp, 1593-1678). circa 1660. Paintings. Oil on canvas

Moses Striking the Rock; 1649. By Nicolas Poussin, Oil on canvas. Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665), the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style. He painted this work for his friend Jacques Stell.

A. P. Lossenko / Hector's Departure

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 center male figures men lying face down bitten by snake serpent.

RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Triumphal Entrance of Henri IV into Paris. 1627 - 1630. Left central detail. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery).

Lot and His Doughters Diziani from Belluno, Gaspare (1689 1767)

The Israelites Gathering Manna in the Desert. Peter Paul Rubens (Germany, Siegen, 1577-1640, active Antwerp). Flanders, circa 1626-1627. Paintings. Oil on wood

Hercules, Deianira and the Centaur Nessus by Spranger, Bartholomeus (1546-1611) Art History Museum, Vienne c. 1580 Oil on canvas 112x82 Flanders Mannerism Mythology, Allegory and Literature Painting

Paolo Veronese (1528 - 18 or 19 April 1588) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the most important masters of the late Renaissance and Venetian painting, here the painting Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date not known

Transfiguration Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574-1625 /Italian) Oil on Canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy

Francesco Solimena (1657-1747). Italian painter. The Archangel Michael defeating the Giants, 1690. Church of Saint George. Salerno. Italy.

Apotheosis of Maria Medici. Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), painter

The Raising of the Cross 17th C. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640/Flemish) Three Panel Triptych Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Depiction of the victim of Gideon, drawn by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli in red chalk with feather on brownish paper with washes.

The Death of Decius Mus, Rubens, Pieter Paul (1577-1640)

'Holy Women at Christ' s Tomb'. Italy, Late 16th century. Dimensions: 121x145,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: ANNIBALE CARRACCI.

Francesco Albani (1578-1660). Italian painter. Rest on the Flight into Egypt, ca. 1640. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic.

Parnassus, Lower Left, with Sappho, Raphael, Raffaello S., 1510.

Francisco Bayeu y Subías / 'Adán y Eva reconvenidos por su pecado', 1771, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 59,3 cm x 32,7 cm, P02491. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Claudio Coello / 'Virgin and Child worshiped by Saint Louis, King of France', 1665-1668, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 229 cm x 249 cm, P00661. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Heracles Delivering Hesione, Francois Le Moyne (1688-1737/French)

Brazen Serpent, The, Le Brun, Charles (1619-1690/French)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'The Victorious Hannibal seeing Italy from the Alps for the first Time'. 1771. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Personifications of the Liberal Arts. Miguel March (1638-1670). Oil on canvas, 151 x 176cm.

MASIP , JUAN VICENTE. PINTOR ESPAÑOL . 1475- 1545. " CONVERSION DE SAULO " , OLEO. MUSEO CATEDRAL DE VALENCIA. Author: VICENTE MACIP.

Judith Displaying the Head of Holofernes, Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634-1705, 1703-4, Oil on canvas, Made in Naples, Italy, Europe, Paintings, 30 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. (77.5 x 102.9 cm)

Xavier-Alphonse Monchablon (1835-1907). "Sketch for the Saint-Nicolas -Des-Champs church. The Sainte-Famille". Oil on canvas. 1869. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Figurative art, religious art, holy history, Christian iconography, religious iconography, saint

Alessandro Allori / 'Descent from the Cross', ca. 1560, Italian School, Oil on copper, 70 cm x 54 cm, P00511. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

CARAVAGGIO, Michelangelo Merisi da (1573-1610). The Adoration of the Shepherds. 1609. Detail. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. ITALY. SICILY. Messina. National Museum.

The Nativity. Dated: 1534. Dimensions: overall: 274.4 x 221.1 cm (108 1/16 x 87 1/16 in.) framed: 302 x 248.9 x 9.8 cm (118 7/8 x 98 x 3 7/8 in.). Medium: oil on panel transferred to canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: PERINO DEL VAGA.

Assumption, 1759, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), fresco. Detail. Oratory of Purity, Udine.

Clelia before Porsena, by Placido Costanzi (1702-1759), oil on canvas, 155x155 cm. Roman Kingdom, Italy, 6th century BC.

Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy". Dated: 1843. Dimensions: overall: 42.3 x 36.1 cm (16 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite, heightened with white gouache, on 3 joined sheets of laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN-JACQUES FEUCHERE.

Ceiling painting by Martini and Zucci in the Throne Room, Golden Room, baroque Rundale Palace, Pilsrundale, Bauske, Latvia, Baltic States, Europe

*ACUÑANDO MONEDA. Author: MARCO VECELLIO. Location: DUCAL PALACE. Venedig. ITALIA.

Detail of The Last Judgment; about 1525; Oil on oak panel Jan Provost; Belgian; about 1465-1529/32

Saint Livinus: martyrdom. Watercolour after Sir P.P. Rubens.

DETALLES DEL CUADRO "LA INMACULADA CONCEPCION". AUTOR: DOMENIKOS THEOTHOKOPOULOS, EL GRECO. EN EL MUSEO DE SANTA CRUZ, Nº INVENTARIO 1277. (1608-1613, OLEO SOBRE LIENZO, DEPOSITO DE LA PARROQUIA DE SAN NICOLAS DE BARI, TOLEDO).

The Triumphal Entrance of Henry IV into Paris 1620, Rubens, Peter Paul, 1620.

Painting by enea talpino, colzate, Italy

Allegory of the Stadtholdership of Prince Frederick Henry.Allegory on the city center of Prince Frederik Hendrik. Female Personification Victoria with palm branch hand over the Stadholder a laurel wreath, standing between them in Willem II watch. A servant holds the reins of a horse. In the air, angels fly with a crown and laurel wreaths.

Allegory of autumn, Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, c. 1670

Claudio Ferit. Italian painter, active in Lombardy between 1633 and 1662. The Flagellation of Christ. Oil on canvas. Ala Ponzone Civic Museum. Cremona. Italy.

SPRANGER, Bartholomaeus (1546-1611). Minerva Victorious over Ignorance. 1591. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History).

RIÑA DE ISAAC E ISMAEL - SIGLO XVII - OLEO/LIENZO - 175 x 84 cm - NP 3195 - BARROCO ITALIANO. Author: LUCA GIORDANO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. Abraham. ISHMAEL. HAGAR. ISAAC. Sara.

The Guardian Angel, 1630 By Gioacchino Assereto, Oil Painting, Baroque, Angel

Assumption of the Virgin, 1489-1492, by Filippino Lippi (1457 ca- 1504), fresco. Detail. Basilica of Santa Maria above Minerva, Carafa Chapel, center wall, Rome.

The Holy Night. Date/Period: 1522 - 1530. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 2,560 mm (100.78 in); Width: 1,880 mm (74.01 in). Author: CORREGGIO.

Great Trinitarian allegory, eighteenth-century painting on canvas, Francesc Tramulles Roig, Museum of Baroque of Catalonia, Manresa, Spain.

The Parnassus, 1509-1511, by Raphael is a fresco painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael in the Raphael Rooms ("Stanze di Raffaello"), in the Palace of the Vatican in Rome, painted at the commission of Pope Julius II. The fresco shows the mythological Mount Parnassus where Apollo dwells; he is in the centre playing an instrument surrounded by the nine muses, nine poets from antiquity, and nine contemporary poets. Apollo, along with Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, inspired poets. Homer (in dark blue robe to the left of centre), expressing blindness rather than pain. Two of the female figures in the fresco have been said to be reminiscent of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, Euterpe and Sappho

The Great Last Judgement, Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1617, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany, Europe

Aeneas and Dido Fleeing the Storm. Jean-Bernard Restout (France, Paris, 1732-1797). circa 1772-1774. Paintings. Oil on paper on canvas

Disciples of Emmaus. 16th c. Work by Francesco Bassano's workshop. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. NAVARRE. Pamplona. Navarra Museum.

Panel depicting the sacking of cities, of Niccolo Betti (active between 1576 and 1617). Studiolo (small study) of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Italy, 16th century.

FLIPART, Charles Joseph (1721-1797). The Surrender of Seville to St. 2nd half 16th c.II. He is in position of receiving the keys of the city conquered to the arabs. Rococo. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Le Brun, Charles (1619-1690). Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro. Classicism. Oil on canvas. ITALY. EMILIA-ROMAGNA. Modena. Galleria e Museo Estense (Estense Art Gallery and Museum).

Detail, dome fresco by Johann Michael Rottmayr, Karlskirche, Charles Church, 1716-1736, Vienna, Austria, Europe

'Perseus Releases Andromeda'. Flanders, Circa 1622. Dimensions: 99,5x139 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Peter Paul Rubens (Pietro Pauolo).

The conversion of St Paul, by Lodovico Carracci (1555-1619), oil on canvas, 278x170 cm.

Tavern in Rome, sketch. Gierymski, Aleksander (1850-1901), painter

Giovanni Battista Pittoni Zwiastowanie, Akademia, Wennecja. Karta No. 612 W: The galleries of Europe. Painting of old masters in the colors of the originals. Volume 5, publisher of E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1910. Publisher by A.E. Seemann in Leipzig, Pittoni, Giovanni Battista (1686 1767)

Diego Polo the Younger (1620-1655). Spanish Baroque painter. Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew. Last third of 17th century. Church of Barasoain. Navarra. Spain.

Luca Giordano (born 18 October 1634, died 3 January 1705), called Fa Presto, Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1660-1665), Painting, Reproduction of the painting in its original state, Work of art, Historical, An angel with a sword defeats demonic figures in a Baroque depiction

Carlo Maratta / 'Hagar and Ishmael'. Early XVIII century. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Putti: a ceiling decoration. Date/Period: Ca.1660s. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil. Height: 1,727 mm (67.99 in); Width: 1,337 mm (52.63 in). Author: Sir Peter Paul Manner of Rubens.

Acisclo Antonio Palomino y Velasco / 'Saint Josephs Dream'. Ca. 1697. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge in the Hall of Constantine. 1613. Raphaël. Vatican Museum. Rome. Italy.

John the Baptist / Poussin / c.1630/35

Quos Ego-Neptune Calming the, Waves, c.1635, Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640/Flemish), Oil on canvas, Gemaldegalerie, Dresden, Germany

LUCAS VELAZQUEZ, Eugenio (1817-1870). The garrotted man. 1855. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo Nacional del Romanticismo.

The Continence of Scipio, Domenico Beccafumi (1486-1551).

Union of Florence and Fiesole. Date/Period: 1563 - 1565. Oil painting on wood. Height: 250 mm (9.84 in); Width: 540 mm (21.25 in). Author: Giorgio Vasari.

'Democritus and Protagoras'. Italy, 1663-1664. Dimensions: 185x128 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: SALVATOR ROSA.

Stucco and ceiling fresco by Cosmas Damian Asam, Basilica of St. Martin in Weingarten, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Fresco on the ceiling of St. Michael Church, Berg am Laim, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Painting titled 'Madonna in Glory with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Stephan' by Michelangelo. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.

Pedro Machuca / 'Descent from the Cross', 1547, Spanish School, Oil on panel, 141 cm x 128 cm, P03017. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

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