Mythological Paintings of the Baroque Era

A collection of Baroque artworks depicting mythological themes, featuring gods, allegories, and dramatic scenes with rich colors and dynamic compositions.

The Rape of Proserpina by Rubens, Pieter Paul (1577-1640) / Museo del Prado, Madrid / 1636-1638 / Flanders / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 181x271,2 / Baroque

The Rape of Proserpina by Rubens, Pieter Paul (1577-1640) / Museo del Prado, Madrid / 1636-1638 / Flanders / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 181x271,2 / Baroque

'Diana and Actaeon'. France, Between 1670 - 1761. Dimensions: 81x46,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Louis Galloche.

Mythological scene (Neptune calms the winds); French painter of the 17th century; End of the 17th century (1690-00-00-1700-00-00);Neptun (mythol.), Mythology

The sacrifice of Abraham, Titian (ca 1490-1576). Fresco. Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.

Diana and Endymion. Date/Period: Between 1705-1710. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,790 mm (70.47 in); Width: 2,328 mm (91.65 in). Author: Francesco Solimena.

'Rinaldo and Armida'. Holland, Circa 1672. Dimensions: 140x167 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Barent Graat.

Johann Rottenhammer (1564-1625). "The Judgment of Pâris". Oil on copper, 1597. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 112269-1 Angel, Beauty, choice, Beauty competition, laurel wreath, deesse de l'amour, deesse Greco-Romaine, Greek deesse, divine, Greco-Romaine divinity, Judgment, mannerism, Mont Ida, Greek mythology, Nudite, Symbolic object, Golden apple, mythological scene, mannerist style, victory, 16th 16th 16th 16th 16th 16th century, dog, putto, putto

Venus and Adonis; mid-1630s; Oil on canvas, (Cincinnati Art Museum). By Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640). Based upon Ovids story, Metamorphoses (8 A. D). Pricked by one of Cupids arrows, Venus falls in love with Adonis the hunter. 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.

Jove casts his Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants 1690-1695 Austria. Oil on canvas . Johann Michael Rottmayr

The victorious hero takes the opportunity to make peace. Mars is presented by Minerva on this occasion, accompanied by Ceres, after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1638, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Galatea, by De Matteis Paolo, 1692, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Brera Art Gallery. Detail of two nude figures in the foreground.

Apollo and Marsyas, 1637, by Jose de Ribera known as Spagnoletto (1591-1652), oil on canvas, 182x232 cm.

The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Date/Period: Ca. 1780. Oil paintings. Oil on canvas. Author: Giacinto Diana.

Italy, Coldirodi, Saint Sebastian and Devout Women

P.P. Rubens, The (large) Last Judgement

Rafael Tegeo (1798-1856). Spanish painter. Combat of lapiths and centaurs. Oil on canvas, 1835. Private collection.

The Baptism of Christ. Artist: Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, Belluno 1659-1734 Venice). Dimensions: 26 x 40 in. (66 x 101.6 cm). Date: ca. 1713-14.An artist of international reputation, Ricci left for England in 1711 or 1712. This fine oil sketch is for the decoration (destroyed) of a wall in the Duke of Portland's chapel at Bulstrode House, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. The facing wall showed the Last Supper and the ceiling, the Ascension. In 1733 George Vertue praised Ricci's work in the chapel: "the whole a noble, free invention with great force of lights and shade, with variety and freedom in the composition of the parts.". Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

the expulsion from paradise, Guillem Mesquida, 1745, oil on canvas, Can Puig, Museu de Mallorca, Palma, Majorca, Spain.

'Narcissus'. Italy, 1645-1647. Dimensions: 20,5x29,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: PIER FRANCESCO MOLA.

Apollo Pursuing Daphne. Dated: c. 1755/1760. Dimensions: overall: 68.5 x 87 cm (26 15/16 x 34 1/4 in.) framed: 88.3 x 105.7 x 5.7 cm (34 3/4 x 41 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

The Brazen Serpent, by Robusti Jacopo known as Tintoretto, 1575, 16th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Venice, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Upper Hall. Detail. Clouds sky angels God the father white light blue: azure light black.

The Birth of Venus. Date/Period: 1635 or 1636. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 972.31 mm (38.27 in); Width: 1,080.77 mm (42.55 in). Author: NICOLAS POUSSIN.

Putti with a Festoon, anonymous, c. 1650 painting A group of three putti playing with a festival, other putti fly in the background. Part of a group of four ceiling paintings with putti (SK-A-4707/4710). Northern Netherlands canvas. oil paint (paint)

Galatea and Acis. Dating: 1651. Measurements: support: h 155.5 cm × w 201 cm; d 8 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Adriaen van Nieulandt (I).

A Satyr, by Jacob Jordaens, 1630-35, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. In 17th-century literature, Satyrs dwelt in the pastoral paradise of Arcadia, where life was carefree. This smiling satyr is herding goats and sheep, and playing his flute. He is realisti (BSLOC_2016_6_209)

The Brazen Serpent, by Robusti Jacopo known as Tintoretto, 1575, 16th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Venice, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Upper Hall. Detail. Men bodies anatomy torsion Israelites Jews venomous serpents snakes.

'Justice and Peace', ca. 1754, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 216 cm x 325 cm, P00104. Author: CORRADO GIAQUINTO (1703-1766). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. JUSTICIA. Paz.

Jean Baptiste Borkens / 'La Apoteosis de Hércules', 17th century, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 189 cm x 212 cm, P01368. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Perseus and Andromeda, Morazzone Mazzucchelli, Pier F, 1620.

Jacob Jordaens / 'Meleager and Atalanta', 1620-1650, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 152,3 cm x 240,5 cm, P01546. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Jupiter's Childhood, by Carlo Cignani (1628-1719).

Meeting between Esau and Jacob by Bottala, Giovanni Maria (1613-1644) / Musei Capitolini, Rome / Baroque / 1636-1641 / Italy, School of Genoa / Oil on canvas / Bible / 238x334

Luca Giordano (1634-1705). Italian painter. Perseus cutting of Medusa's head. National Museum of Capodimonte. Naples. Italy.

'Moses Striking the Rock'. France, 1649. Dimensions: 122,5x191 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: NICOLAS POUSSIN.

Michiel I Coxie / 'The Death of Abel', After 1539, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 151 cm x 125 cm, P01518. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. ABEL.

Venus and Mars', c1725-1770. Artist: Francois Boucher. Francois Boucher (1703-1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style.

Element Water, by Mazzoni Giulio, 1550, 16th Century, fresco. Italy: Lazio: Rome: Palazzo Spada: Stanza delle Quattro Stagioni e dei Quattro Elementi. Detail. Woman probably goddess men soldiers warriors armors/cuirasses plumed helmets lances/spears young boy naked mantle/cloak blue azure/light blue white yellow

Ceres and Two Nymphs with a Cornucopia. Date/Period: Ca. 1617-27. Painting. Oil on panel Oil. Height: 309 mm (12.16 in); Width: 244 mm (9.60 in). Author: Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

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

Sine Baccho et Cerere Friget Venus. Giacinto Gimignani (1606-1681). Oil on canvas. 120.7 x 171.2cm.

Ariadne and Bacchus, the original copy by Guido Reni (1575-1642), oil on canvas. Detail.

The Age of Gold; Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, about 1541 - 1596; Italy, Europe; about 1565; Pen and brown ink and brush with brown, ocher and red wash, heightened with white gouache on ocher-washed paper; 47.9 x 37.8 cm (18 7/8 x 14 7/8 in.)

The Triumph of Pan - Nicolas Poussin, 1636

THE BACCHANNEL OF LOS ANDRIOS - LEFT DETAIL - 1523-1526 - O/L - 175x193 - NP 418 - VENETIAN RENAISSANCE - SET 7439. Author: TIZIANO VECELLIO DE GREGORIO-TICIANO-. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

The Massacre of the Innocents by Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) / Musee Conde, Chantilly / ca. 1628-1629 / France / Oil on canvas / Bible / 118x179

HERMINIA Y LOS PASTORES. Author: LUCA GIORDANO. Location: HOSPITAL TAVERA-HOSPITAL DE SAN JUAN BAUTISTA. Toledo. SPAIN.

Apollo Slaying Coronis. Johann Zoffany (1733-1810). Oil on canvas. Dated 1759. 56 x 49cm.

Zacharia's Webber (1644-1696), an sacrifice to Apollo, 1672

Spanish school. Flight into Egypt. La huida a Egipto. Oil on canvas (209 x 250 cm). Madrid, El Prado. Author: Jose Moreno. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. VIRGIN MARY. SAN JOSE ESPOSO DE LA VIRGEN MARIA.

'The Rape of Hippodamia (Combat of the Centaurs and Lapithas)'. Flanders, 17th century. Dimensions: 68,5x98,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Anonymous Artist. 17th century. Peter Paul Rubens (Pietro Pauolo) (after).

Lion Hunt 1860-1861 France. Oil on canvas . Eugène Delacroix

Scene with people, angels and centaurs by Frans Francken the Younger, Oil on wood, 1635, 1581-1642, Private Collection, 142x210, 8

Angles appearing to Shepherds by Benjamin West (1738 - 1820); Oil on panel; Circa 1790

The Triumph of Galatea 1511 Raphael (1483-1520 Italian) Fresco Villa Farnesina, Sala di Galatea, Rome

Apollo and Marsyas. Date/Period: 17th century. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil. Height: 489 mm (19.25 in); Width: 368 mm (14.48 in). Author: FILIPPO LAURI.

EL FUEGO - SIGLO XVII - OLEO/LIENZO - 245x160 - NP 3198 - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: ANONIMO ESPAÑOL. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

'Flight into Egypt'. Spain, Between 1600 and 1603. Dimensions: 126,5x105,3 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: BARTOLOMÉ CARDUCHO.

Meeting Of The Two Ferdinands 1635 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640 Flemish) Oil on Panel

'Venus and Adonis'. France, Circa 1638. Dimensions: 68,8x81 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Simon Vouet (workshop).

Cain killing Abel, by Nicolo Tornioli (1598-1651), oil on canvas, 292x196 cm.

Oedipus and the Sphynx - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Detail from the 16th century frescoes in the Hall of the Zodiac of Palazzo Odescalchi at Bassano Romano, Lazio. Italy.

Sacristy of St Giovanni Carbonara by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) and Cristofano Gherardi (1508-1556). The Sacrifice of Isaac. National Museum of Capodimonte. Naples. Italy.

fine arts, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), painting, ""The Worship of Venus"", oil on canvas, 1518, 175 cm x 172 cm, Prado, Madrid,

Joseph and His Brethren, by Bartholomew Murillo, Wallace Collection, London, England, UK, GB, Europe

Anonymous. "The triumph of Flore, also said the raising of the dawn". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 74593-2 Angel, Roman divinity, flower, raising aurora, triumph, oil on canvas

Francisco Camilo / 'The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew', 17th century, Spanish School, Canvas, 205 cm x 249 cm, P00623. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Wiosna Allegory of Spring. Date/Period: 1680s. Painting. Height: 5,180 mm (16.99 ft); Width: 4,290 mm (14.07 ft). Author: Jerzy Eleuter Szymonowicz Siemiginowski.

The Forge of Vulcan, circa 1565 - Jacopo Zucchi

Lattanzio Gambara (Italian, c. 1530 - 1574), Saint Roch Interceding on Behalf of Plague Victims, c. 1570, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache on paper washed brown

Luca Giordano (b. 18 October 1634, d. 3 January 1705), called Fa Presto, Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period, The Abduction of Proserpina, Painting, Reproduction of the painting in its original state, Work of art, Historical, Gods ride on a chariot into heaven, accompanied by angels and horses

Spring, by Francesco Monti (1683-ca1769), oil on canvas, 59x41 cm.

Francisco Camilo / 'The Death of Saint Paul the Hermit'. Ca. 1649. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Pieta, 1540 by Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (Rosso Fiorentino), Oil on wood

The Flight into Egypt, painted by Peter Paul Rubens, 17th century, Album of the Cassel Gallery, published by E.A. Seemann 1907, Leipzig

Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577-Antwerp, 1640). The Blinding of Samson (ca. 1609 - 1610). Oil on panel. 37.5 x 58.5 cm. Museum: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Nymph and Satyr. Date/Period: 17th century. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 677 mm (26.65 in); Width: 502 mm (19.76 in). Author: NICOLAS POUSSIN.

The Triumph of Samson, Guido Reni, circa 1611-1612, National Art Gallery of Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Emilia-Romagna region, Bologna, Italy

NOE DESPUES DEL DILUVIO CON SUS HIJOS - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ITALIANO. Author: Giuseppe Castiglione. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. NOAH. SEM. DIOS PADRE. Cam. JAFET.

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Artist: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) (Italian, Zadar (Zara) ca. 1510-1563 Venice). Dimensions: Overall, with corners made up, 51 1/2 x 61 7/8 in. (130.8 x 157.2 cm); painted surface 50 1/2 x 61 1/2 in. (128.3 x 156.2 cm). Date: ca. 1550.The painting represents the marriage of Cupid, the son of Venus, with the mortal Psyche, in the presence of Juno, Jupiter, Mars, and other gods of Olympus as narrated by Apuleius in <i>The Golden Ass</i>. Originally an octagon (the four corners are additions), it was the central panel of a ceiling with scenes from the legend of Psyche painted by Schiavone in about 1550 for the Castello di Salvatore di Collalto, in the hills to the north of Venice. Schiavone's fluid and painterly style and the exaggerated proportions of his figures were inspired by Parmigianino and were in turn important to a younger generation of painters such as Tintoretto. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Shepherds Dreaming of the Flight into Egypt. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Deshays (French, Colleville 1729-1765 Paris). Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (33.4 x 30.8 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sacristy of St Giovanni Carbonara by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) and Cristofano Gherardi (1508-1556). Baptism of Christ. National Museum of Capodimonte. Naples. Italy.

A Bacchanal. Sebastiano Ricci (Italy, Venice, 1659-1734). Italy, no date. Paintings. Oil on canvas

Triumph of Galatea with Cupid Nereids Tritons and hippocampi 1857

The Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian (1488-1576) / Museo del Prado, Madrid / 1523-1526 / Italy, Venetian School / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 175x193

Four Ages of Life, Silver age or tranquil life devoted to agricultural and pastoral life with Ceres, fresco

Clelia crossing the Tiber, ca 1510, painting from the Sienese school, oil on canvas, 77x78 cm.

Manuel de Castro / 'The Flight to Egypt'. 1697. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Marsyas Ill-Treated by the Muses, Jacob Jordaens, I, 1630 - 1640

JESUCRISTO MUERTO SOSTENIDO POR ANGELES - SIGLO XVI - OLEO/TABLA - 43 x 28 cm - NP 58 - MANIERISMO ITALIANO. Author: PINO MARCO DAL. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. JESUS. CRISTO MUERTO. PADRE ETERNO.

Bliżej Kultury Publisher of A.E. Seemann in Leipzig, Kaulbach, Friedrich August von (1850 1920)

Witches, Scenes from the Everyday Life of the Witch with Fantasy Creatures, 1650, after a painting by Salvator Rosa, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th or 19th century original.

'Hagar in the Desert'. Italy. Dimensions: 69,5x92 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Andrea Sacchi (workshop).

Nymphs Feeding the Child Jupiter. Dated: c. 1650. Dimensions: overall: 117.4 x 155.3 cm (46 1/4 x 61 1/8 in.) framed: 148 x 184.2 x 12.1 cm (58 1/4 x 72 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Follower of Nicolas Poussin.

Claudius Civilis Blockades the Romans in Vetera Castra, Otto van Veen, 1600 - 1613

'Cannibals savouring human remains', 1800-1808 Artist: Francisco Goya. Francisco Goya(1746-1828) was a Spanish artist whose paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th and 20th century painters.

The Four Ages of Life frescos, The Silver age or tranquil life devoted to agricultural and pastoral life (detail)

Elijah and the Angel, by Cavallucci Antonio, 18th Century, canvas. Italy, Lazio, Rome, Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti Basilica. Whole artwork. Old man beard Elijah: Elias mantle: cloak prophet angel putto young man: boy view landscape sea cloud white pink light blue: azure.

The Combat of Diomedes, by Jacques-Louis David, 1776

fine arts, Boeckhorst, Jan van, (1605 - 1668), painting, ""Daedalus and Icarus"", Schlei_heim castle, Munich, Germany, Europe, 17th century, baroque, Greek mythology, Daidalos, Ikaros, flying, flight, wings, disaster, fall, Schleissheim,

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