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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
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Lorenzo Lotto / 'Penitent Saint Jerome', 1546, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 99 cm x 90 cm, P00448. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.Saints Sebastian, Rocco and Margherita, 1530, by Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone (1484-1539), Church of St John the Almsgiver, Venice. Italy, 16th century.Descent of Christ Into Limbo, by Angelo Bronzino, 1552, Museo dell'Opera, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, EuropeUSA, Los Angeles, Scene from TannhauserSAN SEBASTIAN-. Author: JUSEPE DE RIBERA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.Bacchus surrounded by nymphs and satires; Voordt, F. Van (Fl. CA 1650-1699); XVII century (1640-00-00-1690-00-00);Bacchus (mitol.), State Art collections (Warsaw - 1922-1939) - collections, Popławski, Jan (1860-1935), Popławski, Jan (1860-1935) - collections, Flemish painting, nymphs (Mitol.), Landscapes, landscapes, message (provenance), satire (mitol.), Mythological scenesBartolome Esteban Murillo (1618-1682). Spanish painter. Beggar boys playing dice, 1675. Detail. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany.MARIA MAGDALENA , SANTA. PERSONAJE EVANGELICO. " MAGDALENA PENITENTE ". OLEO DE JUAN CARREÑO MIRANDA. MUSEO BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO . MADRID.The Fall of Fetonte (La caduta di Fetonte), by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as il Guercino, 17th Century, frescoThe Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian - 100x83 cm - oil on panel. Author: GENGA. Location: GALERIA DE LOS UFFIZI. Florenz. ITALIA. SAINT SEBASTIAN. DIOS PADRE.ROMANO, Giulio, Workshop of. Venus and Vulcan. ca. 1530. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Roman school. Oil on wood. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum.'The Regina Martyrum' (sketch), 1780, Oil on canvas. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: LA SEO. SARAGOSSA. Saragossa Zaragoza. SPAIN.Country Scene, by Roman artist, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Brera Art Gallery. Whole artwork. Peasants donkey cow calf dog child: baby woman spindle spinning wool man oval.Camillus and the Schoolmaster of Falerii by Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) / Musei Capitolini, Rome / Baroque / 1635-1640 / France / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 134x143St Sebastian School of Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, called Cavaliere Perugino (1609-81) Oil on wood'Jacob Meeting Rachel'. Italy. Dimensions: 71,5x96 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Andrea de Lione.Ceiling Orphans' Chamber by Holsteijn, Cornelis (1618-1658) Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam 1656 Holland Fresco Painting Mythology, Allegory and LiteratureFrancis Hayman, 1707/8-1776, British, The Good Samaritan, between 1751 and 1752. Oil on canvas.Landscape with Satyrfamilie. 1507. (Albrecht Altdorfer; 1480-1538 To Regensburg)Perseus riding Pegasus, 1869 by French painter Paul Joseph Blanc (1846-1904). Orsay Museum. Paris. France.Diane's bath . 1545. Oil on material (17 x 110 cm). Sao Paulo, Art museum. Author: FRANÇOIS CLOUET FRANÇOIS (1510-15) 72. Location: MUSEO DE ARTE DE SAO PAULO ASSIS CHATEAUBRIAND. SAO PAULO. BRASILIEN. DIANA CAZADORA-DIOSA EN LA MITOLOGIA ROMANA.Jupiter butterfly painter, Mercury and Virtue, 1515-1518, by Dosso Dossi (ca 1486-1542), oil on canvas, 111x150 cm.EL AQUELARRE-DET JOVENES POSEIDAS-OLEO/LIENZO 79,5X63 CM. Author: EUGENIO LUCAS VELAZQUEZ. Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES. LA HABANA. CUBA.Rafael Santi Wizja Ezechiela; Palazzo Pitti, Florenceja. Karta no. 316 W: The Galleries of Europe. Painting of Old Masters in the Colors of the Originals. Volume 6, Publisher of E. A. Seemann, Leipzig Publisher by A.E. Seemann in Leipzig, Santi, Raffaello (1483 1520)Martyrdom of St Stephen, ca 1521, by Giulio Romano (1499-1546), oil on canvas, 288x403 cm, Church of Santo Stefano, Genoa, Italy.Jan Brueghel 'el Joven' / 'The Four Elements', 17th century, Flemish School, Oil on panel, 65 cm x 111 cm, P01400. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gabbiani Anton Domenico, 18th Century, 1726, oil on canvas,The Bath of Diane', c1510. Artist: Francois Clouet. Francois Clouet (1510-1572) was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family.The Vision of St John the Evangelist, the Evangelists and the Doctors of the Church, by Allegri Antonio known as Correggio, 1520 - 1524, 16th Century, fresco. Italy, Emilia Romagna, Parma, San Giovanni Evangelista church, dome. Detail. Putto monochrome baby child arms muzzle lion arms.PARMIGIANINO, Francesco Mazzola, called Il (1503-1540). Legend of Artemis and Actaeon. 1523. ITALY. Fontanellato. La Rocca. Scene of the pursuit of love. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Fresco.The Fall of the Titans, The lost epic Titanomachy tells of the battle of the Titans between the Olympians, the Hekatoncheirs and a number of Titans, in which they are finally defeated after a hard struggle and driven into the depths of the underworld, the Tartarus, 1588-1590, Painting by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the time.Rubens / Diana's Return from the HuntThe Witches' Sabbath. Date/Period: 1635/1654. Painting. Oil on canvas. Width: 73 cm. Height: 87 cm (without frame). Author: SALVATOR ROSA.Yumbo Indian of Naymas - 1783 - oil on canvas - Quito School. Author: VICENTE ALBAN (1725-). Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.Latona Turning the Lycian Peasants into Frogs, c. 1730, Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian, 1704 - 1760, 8 1/2 x 12 in. (21.59 x 30.48 cm) (panel), Oil on copper (listed in 1970 catalogue as 'oil type on silver'), Austria, 18th centuryThe Triumph of Venus, 1833, Francis Podesti (1800-1895). Detail.Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). "The rest of Diane". Oil on canvas, around 1640. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 61024-9 Framework, deesse hunting, divinity, naked woman, female naked, nudite, rest, rest, oil on canvasFor centuries Venice was Europes prime trading partner with the Middle East and the Byzantine Empire in particular. Venetian naval and commercial power was unrivalled in Europe until it lost a series of wars to the Ottoman armies in the 15th century. The city lost some 50,000 people to the Black Death in 1575-77, but remained a major manufacturing center and port well into the 18th century.The Kermesse, detail of peasants dancing - ca. 1635/38 - oil on panel. Author: PEDRO PABLO RUBENS (1577-1640). Location: LOUVRE MUSEUM-PAINTINGS. France.Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (1475-1564). Italian artist. The Last Judgement. Fresco. 1536-1541. Detail. Central part. Sistine Chapel. Vatican Museums. Vatican City.'The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice' (detail), 1580-1582, Oil on canvas. Author: EL GRECO-Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1540-1614). Location: MONASTERIO-PINTURA. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN. SAINT MAURICE. JUAN D'AUSTRIA.Stories of Joseph of Joseph rejects Potiphar's Wife, by Carcher Nicola, model Allori Angelo (Agnolo) Bronzino, 1549, 16th Century, . Italy: Tuscany: Florence: Palazzo Vecchio. Detail. Potiphar's Wife. Material from the Medici tapestry works yellow red magenta light blue/azure bed sheetANGELES JUGANDO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.Illustration from the 1791 edition of Cupid and Psyche, originally published in 1669 by Jean La Fontaine (French 17th century author). It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche and Cupid, and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage.The Battle of the Milvian Bridge in the Hall of Constantine, 1613, by Raphael, Vatican Museum, Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Italy, EuropeThe Holy Family by Scarsellino (Scarsella), Ippolito (1551-1620)/ State Hermitage, St. Petersburg/ Italy, School of Ferrara/ Oil on copper/ Mannerism/ 32x25/ BibleSaint Jerome by Dyck, Sir Anthonis, van (1599-1641) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1618-1619 Oil on canvas 165x130 Flanders Baroque Bible PaintingThe Silver Age or rather the quiet life devoted to sheep farming and agriculture, detail from The Four Ages of Man, 1637-1640, by Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), fresco. Detail. Stove Room in the Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.Sketch after Rubens, John Phillip (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1817 - 1867) 1838The flaying of Saint Bartholomew. Oil painting attributed to a Portuguese painter, 19th century.The Conversion of Saint Paul. Dated: c. 1545. Dimensions: overall: 152.7 × 236.3 cm (60 1/8 × 93 1/16 in.) framed: 193 x 276.2 x 14.9 cm (76 x 108 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.) gross weight: 106.595 kg (235 lb.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jacopo Tintoretto.Jupiter by Niccolo Bambini, Oil on canvas, 17th century, Baroque, 1651-1736, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Open-air Museum Pavlovsk Palace,interiors of Raphael rooms, Vatican museum, Vatican VATICAN CITY, VATICAN, JUNE 12, 2015 : interiors and architectural details of Raphael rooms in Vatican museum, june 12, 2015, in Vatican city, Vatican Copyright: xZoonar.com/patrickxmichelettix 17112000Ceiling painting by Martini and Zucci in the Throne Room, Golden Room, baroque Rundale Palace, Pilsrundale, Bauske, Latvia, Baltic States, EuropeWilliam Blake, The Last Supper, 1799 The Last SupperSaint George and the Dragon by Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574)/ Badia delle Sante Flora e Lucilla e una chiesa, Arezzo/ c. 1560/ Oil on canvas/ Mannerism/ 320x240/ BibleMichele Parrasio / 'Allegory of the birth of the Infante Fernando, Son of Felipe II', ca. 1575, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 182 cm x 223 cm, P00479. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness. Date/Period: Probably 1760s. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 214.6 cm (84.4 in); Width: 148 cm (58.2 in). Author: ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS.The Witches' Dance, Flying Witches Have Abducted a Man, c. 1790, Painting by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Historic, Digitally restored reproduction from an original of the periodVenus and Jupiter, Rubens, Pieter Paul (1577-1640)The miracle of the fleece of Gideon, 1500, by Nicolas Dipre (active ca 1495-1532), oil on panel transferred onto canvas.Stefan Lochner (ca.1400/1410-1451). German painter. The Last Judgement, ca.1435. Detail. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.Jonah is thrown overboard during the storm, 1606, French painting, oil on canvas. Detail.Neptune offering gifts to Venice, 1748-1750, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), oil on canvas, 135x275 cm. Detail. Palazzo Ducale, Hall of the Four Doors, Venice.The Fire in the Borgo (detail); 1514; fresco painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist (Raphael), Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520). The Fire in the Borgo a painting at the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. It shows depicts a fire which broke out in the Borgo in Rome in 847.Fall and Expulsion from Garden of Eden, 1509-10, fresco, ceiling of Sistine Chapel, by Buonarroti Michelangelo, Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy,Charon crossing the river Styx to Hades, c. 1515-20Pillage. 17th c. GERMANY. Munich. New Schleissheim Palace. Baroque art. Tapestry.Hercules and Cerberus, oil on canvas by Francisco Zurbaran (1598-1664) Spanish painter. In Greek legend Hercules, as punishment for killing his wife in a fit of rage, was given 12 Labours. The 12th was to bring Cerberus from the Infernal Regions.Allegory of Fortune. Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615 - 1673)The Conversion of Saul 1542-45 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564 Italian) Fresco Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican CitySt. Jerome - 1575 - 184x177 cm - oil on canvas - Italian Renaissance. Author: TIZIANO VECELLIO DE GREGORIO-TICIANO-. Location: MONASTERIO-PINTURA. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN. SAN JERONIMO (347-420).The Perseus Series, Perseus and the Graiae,1900 After: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898) Publisher: Berlin Photographic Company, Landscape, 19th Century, Armour, Print, WomenPre-Raphaelite, Photographic print, Photogravure, MenGreek girls picking up pebbles by the sea, Leighton, Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton (1830-1896)Anonymous (Copy de Cornelisz van Haarlem, Cornelis) / 'the metal snake', 17th century, Dutch School, Oil on canvas, 73 cm x 96 cm, P05100. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN."EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA" PINTURA S XX. Author: FERRANDIS PEDRO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.Goddess Venus reclining in a shell with Eros. Pompeii (). 50-70 AD. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.Roman fresco depicting Endymion contemplating his beloved Selene descending towards him covered with a dark mantle. Triclinium. House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.Job and His Daughters(tempera) Painting; pen and tempera on canvas; overall: 27.3 x 38.4 cm (10 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.) framed: 40.6 x 51.4 cm (16 x 20 1/4 in.);At the a family - Roman idyll; Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902); End of the 19th century (1890-00-00-1900-00-00);women, message (provenance)Dream of St. Joseph. Cavallino, Bernardo (1616 aut 1622-1654 aut 1656), painterBattle Of Amazons by Anselm Feuerbach, Oil on canvas, 1857, 1829-1880, Germany, Oldenburg, Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 53x64, 5Aurora, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1718The Abduction of Ganymede, Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 1635.The birth of JOVEThe last day on Corinth, 1870. Last day before the Roman legions looted and burned the ancient Greek city, 146 BC. Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911). Orsay Museum. Paris. France.SANTIAGO MATAMOROS FIGHTING - MINIATURE BELONGING TO THE ANTIPHONARY OF CHARLES V - F20V. Author: VICENT RAIMUNDI (1495-1566). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. Apóstol Santiago el Mayor. APOSTOL SANTIAGO EN CLAVIJO. APOSTOL SANTIAGO-SANTIAGO MATAMOROS.Diana and her nymphs departing for the hunt, ca 1623-1624, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder known as Velvet Brueghel (1568-1625). The figures of the painting were attributed to Rubens, the landscapes to Brueghel, the work is signed with Rubens' monogram.The National Gallery. The blood of Salvation. Anton Cebej. 18 th century. Ljubljana. Slovenia.Veronese Workshop (Possibly Benedetto Caliari), Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, c 1575 1585 Saint Jerome in the WildernessPaintings by Michelangelo Buonarroti * March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Tuscany February 18, 1564 in Rome, often only called Michelangelo, Italian painter, the Delphic Sibylle, Sixtinian chapel, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not StatedAllegory of Fortune, ca 1490, by Giovanni Bellini (born between 1431 and 1436-1516), oil on wood, 32x22 cm.The Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Demin Giovanni, 19th Century, 1840, fresco,Preliminary study by Jacob de Wit in black chalk and brown wash showing Jupiter seated on clouds holding a rod.Pallas and the Centaur (1480-1485), Pallas And The Centaur, Painting by Sandro Botticelli (1 March 1445, 1510), one of the most important Italian painters and draughtsmen of the early Renaissance, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original, Record date not statedApollo Skinning Marsia (Apollo scortica Marsia), by Giambattista Tiepolo, oil on canvas, 270 x 125 cmLittle St. John the Baptist. nieznany malarz włoski, painterThe Temptations of St Anthony the Abbot, by Tiepolo Giambattista, 1720 - 1725, 18th Century, oil on canvas. Italy: Lombardy: Milan: Brera Art Gallery. Whole artwork. St Anthony the Abbot lying down in the desert behind him a nude/naked woman as an allegory of lust temptationsThe Birth of Venus (detail);by Sandro Botticelli;Italian painter, circa 1445 - 1510. He belonged to the early renaissance, Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici. The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere) by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as an adult woman, arriving at the shore.Spanish school. The Wild boar Hunt. La Caza del Jabali. 1775. Painting made for a carpet for El Escorial monastery. Madrid, Royal Palace. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: PALACIO REAL-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.