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Myth & Religion in Painting

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Venus enthroned under red drapery with a cupid, as richly dressed courtiers kneel and gather around an altar.

Huldigung an Venus

Painting of the Virgin Mary steadying the infant Christ as he reaches toward a white lamb against a dark background.

Madonna and Child

Bernardino Luini, 1530

Painting of two nude women by a wooded river, one standing by a tree and one reclining on the bank, in loose blue and yellow

Standing and Reclining Nymphs

Louis Eilshemius, 1900

Painting of the Venus de Milo statue on a pedestal behind a metal railing in a dim gallery, with another statue in the backgr

Venus from Milo. From Louvre

Ludovica Thornam, 1891

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a dark cloak looking upward, holding a staff with white blossoms.

Saint Joseph

Jusepe de Ribera, 1626

Painting of an old bearded man in a red robe gesturing at a hearth, with a seated woman and child in a dim kitchen.

Der Prophet Elias im Hause der Witwe von Sarepta

Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp

Oval miniature of the Virgin Mary in blue holding the Christ child, with haloes and a crescent moon.

Madonna op de maansikkel

Giovanni Felice Ramelli, 1676

Painting of a winged angel in white embracing a nude figure with curly blonde hair against a golden sky.

An Angel Brings the Dead Body of Abel to Heaven

Edward Dujardin, 1843

Loose oil study of a haloed, bearded Christ figure with open arms in a red robe, set before a green landscape and cloudy sky.

Study for "Christ"

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Interior of a Gothic church with tall columns and arches, with small groups of people in period dress walking across the ston

Interior of the Former Church of Saint George in Antwerp

Petrus Johannes van Regemorter, 1768

Seated young artist with a brush beside a standing partly nude muse, in a studio with a globe, statue and drawing tools.

Der Künstler und seine Muse

Theodor van Pee

Painting of the Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist, a dove, angels and cherubs in the sky, and onlookers on a riverbank.

The Baptism of Christ

Hans Rottenhammer

Painting of two nude nymphs resting by a pond in a dark green wooded landscape with a tan cliff and teal sky.

Nymphs Sleeping

Louis Eilshemius, 1920

Sketch of a lone figure in a dark hat walking a sandy path by a calm grey sea, with a bare shrub and distant hills.

The Wounded Angel, landscape study

Hugo Simberg, 1902

Painting of nude women in a forest by a waterfall, with a figure gesturing at a stream under a pale sky.

Diana entdeckt den Fehltritt der Kallisto

Dirck van der Lisse, 1640

Painting of bathing nymphs by a pond, watched by a satyr on a rock, with a wooded landscape and distant mountains.

Badende Nymphen, von einem Faun belauscht

Daniel Vertangen

Painting of a winged angel in a flowing white robe, gazing upward against a soft blue and cream background.

The Angel

William Baxter Closson, 1910

Oil painting of a nude woman tilted back as a shadowed male figure leans in to kiss her, against a dark background.

Jupiter and Io, Copy of a Detail after Correggio

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1758

Nude women bathe in a wooded river landscape beside a cupid fountain, with classical ruins and hills in the distance.

Diana mit ihren Nymphen im Bade

Daniel Vertangen

Large baroque painting of a bearded saint in a red cloak martyred by soldiers, with angels and cherubs in the sky above.

Martyrdom of Saint George the Great

Godfried Maes, 1681

Painting of a bearded man in red carrying the Christ Child with a golden cross and globe against a cloudy sky.

Saint Christopher

Pieter van Lint, 1650

Painting of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ on a throne in a Gothic interior, wearing a red mantle.

Lucca Madonna

Jan van Eyck, 1437

Painting of sheep and goats fleeing across a rocky hillside toward a stormy sea, with a red-cloaked figure reaching out.

Polyphem mit den fliehenden Gefährten des Odysseus

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel in a red brocade cloak greets Mary in blue beside a book and lilies in a Gothic interi

The Annunciation

Jan van Eyck, 1434

Two brown-robed friars in a stormy landscape, one gazing upward with a staff, the other in prayer, with a distant ship.

The Miracle of Saint John of Capestrano

Pieter van Lint, 1650

Woman with red hair and white veil reading a book in an arched stone niche, with carved putti above, painted panel.

Annunciation (Mary)

Master of the Antwerp Adoration, 1519

Italianate landscape with a lake, leaning trees, rocky cliff, classical buildings, and two small figures under a cloudy sky.

Italienische Landschaft mit mythologischer Staffage

Jan van Eyck's 1436 altarpiece: enthroned Virgin and Child with a kneeling canon, a knight in armour, and a bishop in blue.

Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele

Jan van Eyck, 1436

Two panels show a winged angel and the Virgin Mary as grey sculpted figures in Gothic niches, with a dove above Mary.

The Annunciation Diptych

Jan van Eyck, 1433

Painted wooden crucifix of Christ with outstretched arms, red loincloth, and haloed head on a patterned background.

Crucified Christ

Master of St. Agatha, 1260