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Pencil drawing of Night and Sleep under a starry sky, with Jupiter in a chariot above, by John Flaxman.

Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter - "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven),…

John Flaxman, 1793

Ink and wash drawing of a satyr and satyress with goat legs holding up a large urn above a crouching hound.

Design for a Sculpture consisting of a Satyr and Satyress holding a Vase

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Brown wash drawing of a crowned female figure with a scepter and a peacock beside her, in a ruled border.

Juno

Palma il Giovane, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a classical frieze with bearded men, draped women, nude youths, a horse and two lion heads.

Design for a Frieze, after a Roman Sarcophagus: The First Visit of Bacchus to Ariadne

John Flaxman, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a satyr and satyress balancing an ornate vase on their heads, with scrolled pedestal below.

Satyr and Satyress Seated on a Pedestal Supporting a Vase

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of a standing draped woman in a niche with columns, with a winged putto at lower left.

Allegory or Goddess (Juno?)

Perino del Vaga, 16th century

Engraving of seated Apollo with a lyre, a cow, a dog, and a serpent around a dead tree beside classical columns.

Apollo tending the flocks of Admetus, Apollo seated holding a lyre and flanked by a cow and a dog, a serpent winding…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Saint Cecilia in a cauldron over a fire, an angel above her, a Roman prefect and Jupiter statue at right.

The Martydom of Saint Cecilia standing naked in a large cauldron, at left under a colonnade, sits a Roman Prefect, at…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1520-25

Engraving of nude Venus reclining on a dolphin with a winged cupid and butterfly above the sea.

Venus Reclining on a Dolphin

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1516

Engraving of a nude bearded man reaching toward a reclining woman and winged cupid beside a tree over water.

A naked man pursing a naiad and a cupid into the water

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Jupiter with an eagle embracing Cupid on an arch, after Raphael's Villa Farnesina fresco.

Jupiter embracing Cupid after Raphael's fresco in the Chigi Gallery of the Villa Farnesina in Rome

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517-20

Engraving of a bacchanalian procession with Silenus riding an ass, satyrs, maenads, a lion, and putti in a classical setting.

The procession of Silenus who is carried on an ass preceeded by a bacchant playing the cymbals and other figures

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1531

Engraving of Vulcan hammering on an anvil, with Venus and three winged cupids around the forge.

Vulcan seated hammering on an anvil flanked by Venus and three cupids

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of the Three Graces on clouds with Cupid at left, set within an arched spandrel with a classical pedestal.

The Three Graces sitting on clouds, cupid at the left, after Raphael's fresco in the Chigi Gallery of the Villa Farne…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517-20

Engraving of Venus seated under a tree with Eros beside her holding a bow, a town and river behind them.

Venus and Eros

Agostino Veneziano, 1516

Engraving of a satyr with goat legs carrying a nude nymph whose hair and drapery flow behind them.

Satyr carrying a nymph restraining her right arm

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Cupid above three nude women in an arched spandrel, after a Raphael fresco.

Cupid and The Three Graces, after Raphael's fresco in the Chigi Gallery of the Villa Farnesina in Rome

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517-20

Engraving of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion among classical ruins with arches and broken columns, dated 1528.

Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion

Agostino Veneziano, 1528

Engraving of a nude faun in an arched niche raising grapes, with fruit in his other hand and a small dog at lower right.

A faun standing in a niche holding aloft a bunch of grapes with his right hand and fruit with his left hand, a dog lo…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of the nude god Apollo standing in an arched niche beside a pedestal, one hand resting on an open box.

Apollo partly naked standing in a niche, left hand resting on an open box

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-27

Engraving of two bearded marble herm statues on pedestals, one wearing a lion skin, with a Latin inscription below.

Hercules, from "The Hermae"

Agostino Veneziano, 1536

Engraving of nude Bacchus in an arched niche holding grapes and fruit, with a dog at his feet.

Bacchus standing in a niche holding grapes in his raised right hand, fruit in his left hand, a dog lower right

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of a nude Apollo statue in an arched niche, holding a lyre, with a serpent and tree trunk beside him.

A statue of Apollo, naked standing in a niche, holding a lyre in his left hand and leaning on a tree trunk

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1512-15

Engraving of a reclining bearded nude man, a standing nude woman holding a lamp, and a child grasping a serpent beside a bed.

The Young Hercules in His Cradle

Agostino Veneziano, 1533

Engraving of a nude woman seated by palm trees, bending to her foot, with a hare and distant town in the landscape.

Venus removing a thorn from her left foot while seated on a cloth next to trees, a hare lower right

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Apollo with his hand on Hyacinthus's shoulder, a small Cupid at lower right, beside a tree with bow and quiver.

Apollo standing at the left, his hand resting on the shoulder of Hyacinthus, Cupid in the lower right

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1506

Engraving of two muscular nude men wrestling beside a tree and ruined buildings, with a seated figure watching nearby.

Hercules and Antaeus

Agostino Veneziano, dated 1533

Engraving of a seated nude Venus removing a thorn from her foot beside palms, with a hare and river landscape.

Venus removing a thorn from her left foot while seated beside trees and foliage, a hare eating grass before her

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of nude Venus wringing water from her hair beside a tree, with a quiver hanging above and a distant sea and ship.

Venus wringing the water from her hair, standing at the water's edge

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1506

Engraving of nude Apollo grasping Daphne, whose legs turn to roots as she rises into a laurel branch, with a town behind.

Apollo and Daphne

Agostino Veneziano, 1515