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Painting of Venus embracing Adonis with a spear and hunting dogs, Cupid at lower left, castle and landscape behind.

Venus and Adonis

Bartholomeus Spranger, c. 1585 - c. 1590

Painting of a bearded man in armor seated beside a nude woman with a plumed helmet and spear, with a winged child behind them

Odysseus with Calypso

Gerard de Lairesse, 1680

Painting of Orpheus playing lyre among lions, elephant, camel, unicorn and other animals in a wooded landscape.

Orpheus and the Animals

Paulus Potter, 1650

Oil painting of two robed men before a kneeling crowd beside a carved urn, with classical ruins and hills in the background.

Sts Paul and Barnabas Worshipped as Gods by the People of Lystra

Jacob Pynas, 1628

Painting of a woman in red drapery embracing a seated young man with a spear, a grey dog and a wooded landscape behind.

Venus and Adonis

Josse de Pape, 1629

Nymph bathing by a pond as a satyr reaches toward her beneath a large tree in a wooded landscape.

A Bathing Nymph Taken by Surprise by a Satyr

Moyses van Wtenbrouck, c. 1630 - c. 1635

Painting of Prometheus chained to a rock by Vulcan while Mercury watches, with an eagle above and a forge behind.

Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan

Dirck van Baburen, 1623

Reclining nude woman on white silk bed with rose petals, green drapery, and women playing music in a window-lit room.

Reclining Venus

Lambert Sustris, 1540

Oil painting of Diana receiving wine and fruit from Bacchus and a festive retinue of satyrs and putti in a forest.

Diana Offered Wine and Fruit by Bacchus and his Retinue

Hendrik van Balen, c. 1617 - 1625

Oil painting of a standing nude woman and a seated nude flute player beside a herm in a dark wooded landscape.

A Nymph Dancing to a Shepherd's Flute

Adriaen van der Werff, 1718

Nude nymphs gather around a satyr on a wooded hillside with goats, in a painting by Jacob Jordaens, 1640.

Marsyas ill-treated by the muses

Jacob Jordaens, 1640

Elegant figures feast and flirt in a formal garden under a vine arbor with nude statues, a cupid, and a distant palace.

Venus, Bacchus and Ceres with Mortals in a Garden of Love

Louis de Caullery, 1590 - 1621

Oil painting of a three-masted ship firing guns in a bay, smoke rising near a hillside town, with rowboats in the water.

HMS Steam-Powered Battleship Medusa Opening the Shimonoseki Straits

jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest, 1864

Painting of a reclining nude woman with a winged Cupid kissing her cheek on a white bed against dark drapery.

Venus door Amor gekust

Adriaen van der Werff, 1700

Brown monochrome painting of nude Neptune holding a trident beside a sea monster with open jaws.

Triumph of the Faith: Neptune

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1550 - c. 1560

Allegorical painting of a seated princess in a classical interior with a painter, a harpsichord, musicians and floating nude

Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820). Wife of Prince Willem V, in the Temple of the Arts

Benjamin Samuel Bolomey, 1760 - 1790

Painting of a dancing nymph and a seated flute-playing shepherd beside a ruin, set among dark trees.

A Nymph Dancing to a Shepherd's Flute-Playing

Adriaen van der Werff, 1718

Monochrome brown painting of Hercules in a lion skin struggling with the centaur Nessus beneath him, club raised overhead.

Triumph over Death: Samson Carries the Gates of the City of Gaza | Hercules Kills the Centaur Nessus

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1550 - c. 1560

Painted landscape of a man herding oxen along a hillside path past a village, under a dark stormy sky.

Hercules Steals the Oxen of Geryon

Joos de Momper, 1590 - 1635

Circular ceiling painting of Apollo, Minerva and the nine muses among clouds, with putti and musical instruments.

Apollo Enthroned in the Clouds, with Minerva and the Nine Muses

Painting of nude Fortuna on a column scattering gifts as a crowd below reaches upward; a swan and dog in foreground.

The Goddess Fortuna Bestowing her Gifts

Simon Flocquet, c. 1645

Painting of nude Venus and Mars embracing on a bed with cupids removing armor, draped attendants and a pink curtain behind.

Venus and Mars

Hans Rottenhammer, 1604

Reclining nude youth with closed eyes, wounded thigh, red poppies and spear, in a stormy mountain landscape.

Dying Adonis.[1] Alternative title(s): The blood of the dead Adonis turns into an anemone (Ovid, Met. X 735).[2]

Hendrick Goltzius, 1609

Painting of a nude woman with a laurel wreath playing a lute, seated in a dark landscape with a draped purple cloth.

Muse with Lute

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1528 - 1594

Nude infant Hercules holds a blue-banded serpent in a dim interior with red drapery and a landscape window.

The Infant Hercules with a Serpent

Pieter van der Werff, 1700 - 1722

Painting of a mythological music contest between Apollo and Pan in a forest, with nymphs, satyrs and flying cherubs.

The contest between Apollo and Pan

Denis van Alsloot, 1620

Oil painting of mythological gods and cupids in dark clouds, with a red-robed woman, a nude goddess and fallen figures below.

Diana and Virtus Punish Venus and Bacchus

T. van Malsen, 1694

Oil painting of the infant Bacchus asleep with grapes and a jug, beside a tree in a dusky hilly landscape.

The Infant Bacchus

Pieter van der Werff, 1700 - 1722

Painting of a nude woman with a rose wreath offering a golden cup to a large eagle against a cloudy sky.

Hebe with Jupiter in the Guise of an Eagle

Gustav-Adolphe Diez, 1826

Painting of nymphs in a dark cave beside a statue on a column, with ancient ruins visible through the opening in a sunlit lan

Nymphs in a Cave with Antique Ruins

Petrus van Hattich, c. 1645 - c. 1655