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Nude woman in red hat and jeweled necklace holding a veil, standing before dark trees with a castle and lake beyond.

Venus in a Landscape

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529

Fresco of classical women in draped robes presenting gifts to a standing woman in a red gown, with a small child at right.

Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to Giovanna degli Albizzi

Sandro Botticelli, 1483

Ceiling painting of Bacchus and Ariadne on a panther-drawn chariot, framed by gilded stucco and reclining marble figures.

L'Automne ou Le Triomphe de Bacchus et d'Ariane

Hugues Taraval, 1769

Painting of Venus seated nude on clouds beside Adonis, who holds arrows and embraces her, with white doves in a blue sky.

Vénus et Adonis

Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle, 1772

Painting of Venus reclining nude on red cushion, Adonis in golden armour with spear, and cupids in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Francesco Albani, 1630

Sketch of a seated Jupiter reaching toward a kneeling huntress with a bow and arrows, with putti in clouds below.

Diane implorant Jupiter de ne pas l'assujettir aux lois de l'hymen

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1802

Painting of nude Apollo flaying a bound satyr beneath a tree while other satyrs and two draped women watch in a forest.

Apollo Flaying Marsyas

Filippo Lauri, 1650

Painting of nude women bathing in a grotto stream as a hunter with stag antlers and a red cloak approaches with dogs.

Diana and Actaeon

Giuseppe Cesari, 1603

Painting of Venus embracing Adonis, with a Cupid and two hunting dogs in a dark wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Luca Cambiaso, 1560

Two running figures in a hilly landscape, a woman in blue drapery fleeing a young man in yellow, with a cupid on a cloud abov

Apollo and Daphne

Francesco Albani, 1615

Helmeted Minerva with spear and shield stands at right beside draped Muses, instruments and books, and cherubs in the trees.

Minerva and the Muses

Jacques Stella, 1635

Painting of a sleeping nude youth in a dark forest as a pale luminous female figure approaches through mist and foliage.

Girodet Sleep of Endymion

Anne-Louis Girodet, 2010

Rubens painting of nude figures on clouds, including Ixion embracing a cloud, a peacock, a cupid, and a seated god.

Ixion, king of the Lapiths, deceived by Hera (Juno)

Peter Paul Rubens, 1615

Painting of a garden landscape with a pyramidal fountain, a broken Neptune statue in water, women on steps, and tall trees.

Paysage composé : la Rivière, dit aussi Fontaine pyramidale avec une statue de Neptune brisée

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1700

Venus on a gilded chariot led by Cupid toward a reclining figure in a dark wooded landscape, with putti above.

Venus Led by Cupid to the Dead Adonis

Jacopo Bertoia, 1550

Oil painting of reclining Venus with armored Mars, cupids, a dog and attendants before a smoky forge glow.

Mars and Venus in Vulcan's Forge

Luca Giordano, 1670

Painting of reclining Venus on a bed with cupids working at a forge in a wooded landscape by Francesco Albani.

The Rest of Venus and Vulcan

Francesco Albani, 1621

Painting of two nude women bathing by a forest pool with hunting dogs, bows, arrows and dead game beside them.

Diana leaving her Bath

François Boucher, 1742

Baroque allegory of a helmeted woman with a spear, crowned by putti, with a trampled figure, palette and open book below.

Allegory of France as Minerva Trampling Ignorance and Crowning Virtue

Sebastiano Ricci, 1718

Classical landscape with figures by a river, a lyre player, a fortified city with a bridge, and dark clouds above.

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

Nicolas Poussin, 1650

Large painting of Venus on clouds with Vulcan beside armor, surrounded by cupids and doves in a blue sky.

Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1757

Painting of Bacchus in a chariot with panthers, satyrs, and a reclining woman holding grapes in a pastoral landscape.

Le Triomphe de Bacchus

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1747

Painting of Minerva enthroned on clouds above women and cupids gathered among books and art tools.

Minerva and the Arts

Nicolas Pierre Loir, 1666

Painting of Vulcan holding a sword below Venus seated on clouds with a cherub, swans and armor nearby.

Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1732

Landscape painting with a waterfall, a pool, and women with hunting dogs in a wooded scene by Paul Bril, 1615.

Landscape with Diana Discovering the Pregnancy of Callisto

Paul Bril, 1615

Reclining nude woman sleeps as a satyr approaches, with a cupid in a tree, hunters and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Jupiter and Antiope

Titian, 1551

Circular painting of an embracing couple with a leafy garland, the woman in a pink gown and pearls, the man in blue, before d

Mythological Couple

Paris Bordone, 1540

Oval painting of Apollo chasing Daphne, who reaches for a laurel branch, with a river god and spilling urn below.

Apollo pursuing Daphne

René-Antoine Houasse, 1677

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph beside a stone well, watched by a satyr leaning over it, with a pink curtain and landscape.

A Sleeping Nymph with a Satyr

Giulio Carpioni, 1660

Painting of a seated nude young man with a staff and grapes, pointing skyward, in a wooded landscape with mountains and a lak

Saint John the Baptist, known as Bacchus

Francesco Melzi, 1510

Painting of shipwreck survivors on a crowded raft in a stormy sea, some waving cloth toward the horizon.

The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault, 1819

Painting of a nude woman beside a sea monster as a winged armored rider descends, with a harbor town behind.

Perseus Releases Andromeda

Joachim Wtewael, 1611

Nude woman seated on a bench with cherubs, a satyr at right, and a cat at lower left, against a green curtain.

Jupiter and Antiope

Vincent Sellaer, 1525

Domed ceiling fresco with mythological figures, cherubs and flower garlands around a central painted sky opening.

Venus and Adonis

Antoine François Callet, 1774

Painting of nymphs dancing in a grassy clearing beneath large trees, with soft light and a distant horizon.

A Morning. The dance of the Nymphs

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1850

Painting of a nude woman with crescent moon descending toward a sleeping nude youth, with a cupid and blue drapery.

Diana and Endymion

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, 1822

Painting of Adonis led by cupids toward a reclining Venus in a wooded river landscape with flying putti.

Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus

Francesco Albani, 1621

Reclining nude woman with a skull and silver ewer, a red urn and distant city behind her, under the inscription EVA PRIMA PAN

Eva Prima Pandora

Jean Cousin, 1550

Painting of winged Cupid kissing the forehead of seated Psyche in a hilly landscape, with a butterfly in the sky.

Cupid and Psyche

François Gérard, 1798

Painting of three nude women with gold necklaces, the central one wearing a red feathered hat, against a black background.

The Three Graces

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1531

Diana descends from clouds toward the reclining Endymion, with a greyhound and cupid above, in an octagonal painting.

Diane et Endymion

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1720

Painting of Hercules and Omphale with a nude Omphale leaning toward a seated Hercules holding a distaff, with a cupid and red

Hercules and Omphale

François Lemoyne, 1724

Ceiling painting of Jupiter enthroned above clouds, offering fire to a chained figure as Minerva and female figures look on.

Vesuvius receives from Jupiter the fire that must consume Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabies

François Joseph Heim, 2012

Two helmeted warriors reach toward a bearded half-naked man in a rocky cave, with a ship and arrows in view.

Ulysses and Neoptolemos deprive Philoctète bow and arrows of Hercules

François-Xavier Fabre, 1800

Painting of a reclining youth beside a winged cupid with a torch, and a woman leaning on a rock under trees.

Echo and Narcissus

Nicolas Poussin, 1629

Classical interior with a seated woman in blue, a kneeling vendor with cherubs in a basket, and a standing attendant.

The Cupid Seller

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1763

Oil painting of Minerva guiding a winged nude youth upward toward light and clouds, with cherubs below.

Minerva Leading the Genius of the Arts to Immortality

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1800

Painting of Venus and Adonis: a reclining man in red drapery, a winged child, and a draped goddess above in clouds.

Venus and Adonis

Charles André van Loo, 1750

Oval painting of a winged goddess descending to a helmeted warrior, with a river god, nymph, swan and cherub below.

Iris Sent to Turnus by Juno

Claudio Francesco Beaumont, 1738

Painting of a centaur carrying a struggling woman in pink drapery past a reclining river god and an archer.

The Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus

Louis Jean François Lagrenée, 1755

Minerva in a helmet gestures toward a marble statue as sculptors and a crowd watch in a colonnaded classical setting.

Minerva teaches the art of sculpture to the people of Rhodes

René-Antoine Houasse, 1688