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Engraving of nude Venus pulling a thorn from her foot beside trees, with a hare eating grass and a river landscape behind.

Venus removing a thorn from her left foot while seated on a cloth beside trees and foliage, a hare eating grass befor…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Venus crouching beside a plinth with winged Cupid standing on top, with a tree and landscape behind.

Venus crouching by a plinth on top of which stands Cupid

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of Venus seated on a rock beside a winged Eros who holds a flaming torch, with a tree and cloud behind them.

Venus and Eros

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Engraving of Venus and Cupid riding sea monsters over the sea, with wind heads in clouds and a distant city.

Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of nude Venus embracing a winged Cupid standing on a ledge within an arched niche.

Venus and Cupid standing in a niche

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-27

Engraving of a standing nude male figure resembling classical sculpture, draped cloth on one arm and a serpent at his side.

Apollo

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Engraving of three mythological women on clouds, one nude holding a cloth, with a peacock and a wheat-crowned figure.

Juno, Ceres, and Psyche in the clouds conversing, Juno seated with a peacock at her feet, Ceres wearing a garland of…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of nude Venus standing between two cupids, one holding her arm and the other grasping a draped cloth, against cross

Venus attended by cupids

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Engraving of Venus and Vulcan seated with nude cupids holding arrows, a bow, and fruit, with a curtain behind them.

Venus and Vulcan Surrounded by Cupids

Agostino Veneziano, dated 1530

Engraving of Jupiter and Semele embracing with an eagle, a tree with a hanging tablet, and a winged putto with a thunderbolt.

Jupiter and Semele embracing, an eagle beneath them, a tree at right with a blank tablet hanging from a branch, a win…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Venus seated with a cupid while Vulcan hammers at an anvil beside a brick forge, with a town in the distance.

Venus at left holding a golden apple in her right hand and an arrow in her left, Vulcan at his forge beating a piece…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1505

Engraving of Apollo reaching for Daphne, whose body is transforming into a laurel tree, with a landscape behind them.

Apollo and Daphne

Agostino Veneziano, 1518

Engraving of a nude nymph combing her hair on a rock while Pan peers through leafy branches behind a tree.

Pan spying of the nymph Syrinx who is seated on a rock, combing her hair

Marco Dente, ca. 1516-20

Engraving of the Apollo Belvedere statue, a nude youth with a cloak and quiver beside a tree trunk with a python.

The Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican his left hand resting on the tree trunk around which coils a python

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Brown ink sketch of Jupiter with curly hair and billowing drapery, with an eagle form and layered study lines.

Jupiter Hurling a Thunderbolt

Giulio Romano, 1530-37

Engraving of Venus and Cupid riding sea creatures, with wind heads in clouds above a distant coastal city.

Venus and Cupid riding two sea creatures, Cupid raising an arrow with his right hand and two heads representing wind…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of nude Mars and Venus beside a winged Cupid, with a shield, armor, and a castle in the background.

Mars seated at the left, his left hand on Venus's shoulder, cupid beside her at the right

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1508

Chalk study on grey paper of a male torso, a man's head with raised arm, and a female figure in drapery.

Studies for the Figure of a Centaur and a Nymph

Francesco Trevisani, 1708-17

Pen and ink drawing of muscular smiths forging a shield at an anvil while a woman watches from the left.

Venus Watching Vulcan and Cyclops Forge Armor for Mars

Raymond de La Fage, late 17th century

Engraving of Venus with an arrow resting her hand on the shoulder of a seated Aeneas beside a tree and obelisk.

Venus standing at left resting her hand on the shoulder of Aeneas seated at right

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-27

Pen and grey wash drawing of a winged figure flying through radiating light above two crawling men.

Carl Ehrenswärd as Apollo, flying to inspect Sergel and Abilgaard

Johann Tobias Sergel, 1797

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate ewer topped by Neptune on a sea-horse chariot, with scrolled handle and pedestal.

Design for a Ewer with Neptune on his Chariot

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Engraving of two embracing nude figures beneath a tree, with a deer and a distant hilltop town in the landscape.

Medor and Angelica from Lodovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' or Venus and Adonis embracing, set within a landscape

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Oval drawing of Diana with stags, hounds, spears and hunting gear amid ornamental scrollwork.

Diana with Attributes of the Hunt

Antoine Caron, 16th century

Pencil drawing of a draped female figure holding an armillary sphere, with a globe and instruments at her feet.

Urania

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1520-85

Engraving of a reclining nude woman embraced by a man under a tree, with a horned animal and a distant town in the landscape.

Medor and Angelica from Lodovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", or Venus and Adonis embracing, set within a landscape

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Engraving of a frightened naiad recoiling from a lion-headed fountain beside a palm tree and cypresses.

The Frightened Naïad (Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion)

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, ca. 1740

Engraving of the back of a muscular nude Hercules statue on a pedestal, with a cloak and two onlookers below.

Farnese Hercules

Hendrick Goltzius, ca. 1592, dated 1617

Engraving of Hercules lifting the struggling Antaeus off the ground beside a tree and classical columns.

Hercules holding Antaeus by the waist and lifting him off his feet

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1520-22

Etching of a seated nymph on a shell fountain with a cherub, water falling over dolphin heads, framed by trees.

The Seated Nymph (Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque)

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, ca. 1740