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Mythology

8,088 works

Engraving of nude Venus with a flaming heart and winged Cupid in an oval frame, with fruit and a sheep in the border.

Venus, from The Seven Planets

Jacob Matham, 1597

Etching of Orpheus looking back as Eurydice is pulled into the underworld, with a hound and spirits in a dark cave.

Orpheus Looking Back at Eurydice

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Engraving of nude Bacchus with grapes and a satyr, while three men in period dress gather with a jug and cup in a landscape.

Homage Paid to Bacchus

Jan Saenredam, 1596

Pencil drawing of a helmeted goddess reaching toward a kneeling huntress within an oval frame over a grid.

Design for a Medallion: Huntress Kneeling before an Armed Goddess

Eustache Le Sueur, 17th century

Pencil drawing of Apollo with a lyre beside helmeted Minerva holding a shield, with a cherub and tablet between them.

Minerva Presenting Two Portraits to Apollo

Eustache Le Sueur, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a seated bearded man on a cloud holding a statuette of Athena amid radiating light.

Fliegende Figur, die eine Statuette von Athena hält

Jean Restout, 1701

Engraving of Bacchus seated on a wine press with grapevines, a lute player, and a winged cupid with a bow.

Bacchus Seated on a Barrel

Jan Sadeler, c. 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing nude woman holding a staff, with a peacock sketched beside her.

Juno

Jan Philipsz. van Bouckhorst

Pen and grey wash drawing of a mythological scene with women, a swan, a winged figure and a tree in a landscape.

Mythologische Szene

Johann Heinrich Keller, 1753

Etching of a nude male figure and a draped woman with a bow beside a radiant sun, with a cherub below.

Allegorische Szene: Apoll und Diana (?), vielleicht ein Frontispiz

Isabella Piccini, 1662

Engraving of Perseus on a winged horse attacking a sea monster while Andromeda, chained to a cliff, looks on.

Perseus Rescuing Andromeda

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Etching of Perseus with a raised sword approaching the reclining Medusa, with a helmeted goddess and forest behind.

Perseus Slaying Medusa

Alexander Runciman, 1774

Etching of Phaeton kneeling on clouds before Apollo driving a horse-drawn sun chariot across the sky.

Phaeton Before Apollo

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Etching of armed men fighting at a wedding banquet, with swords raised and a woman watching beside a laid table.

Phineus Attacking Perseus at the Wedding

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Etching of two seated nude figures by a river under trees, with distant standing figures, hills, and a decorative floral frie

Narcissus und Echo I (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 7)

Max Klinger, 1879

Etching of a riverside landscape with trees, poplars and reeds, framed by an ornate architectural border with floral panel be

Narcissus und Echo II (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 8)

Max Klinger, 1879

Etching by Max Klinger showing two figures in a landscape, one standing and one seated with a flowering staff, beneath a tree

Apollo und Daphne I (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 10)

Max Klinger, 1879

Etching of two nude women restraining a large white bull in a meadow, with decorative friezes above.

Apollo und Daphne II (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 11)

Max Klinger, 1879

Etching of a nude woman riding a galloping white bull across a meadow, with cattle and a nude figure by a pond.

Apollo und Daphne III (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 12)

Max Klinger, 1879

Etching of a rearing centaur pursued by armed riders across an open grassy plain under a cloudy sky.

Verfolgter Centaur (Intermezzi, Opus IV, Blatt 3)

Max Klinger, 1881

Etching of Venus seated in a forest holding a bow as Cupid reaches for it, with Italian verse below.

Amor vraagt aan Venus de boog

Odoardo Fialetti, 1617

Etching of nude Venus scolding Cupid beneath a tree, with an Italian verse caption below.

Venus geeft Amor een standje

Odoardo Fialetti, 1617

Engraving of nymphs gathering golden apples from trees in a garden, with a figure carrying a basket among dense foliage.

Nymphs in the garden of the Hesperides picking the golden apples

Cherubino Alberti, 1570

Sepia harbor scene with sailing ships, rowboats, a stone tower and classical columns, with figures on the shore.

Zeehaven met het vertrek van Odysseus van het eiland van de Feniciërs

Richard Earlom, 1775

Brown ink and wash drawing of a sleeping nude Venus on a couch with Cupid and putti.

Venus and Cupid (recto); Studies of a Woman (verso)

Nikolaus Knüpfer, 1620-60

Engraving of sleeping Hercules swarmed by tiny pygmies, with a winged figure and gods on clouds above.

Hercules besieged by Pygmies

Cornelis Cort, 1562-63

Paul Gauguin's 1889 cover design: a woman embraced by a swan within a circle on yellow, with flowers and birds.

("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "…

Paul Gauguin, 1889

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre on a rock with the Muses making music, Pegasus and cherubs above, by Giorgio Ghisi.

Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus

Giorgio Ghisi, c. 1557

Engraving of Hercules at the crossroads with nude figures, a winged child, and a castle in the background landscape.

Hercules op de tweesprong

Albrecht Dürer, 1498

Engraving of a classical statue of Diana with a crescent moon, standing beside a stag and fish within a decorative frame.

Beeld van Diana in de oostelijke galerij van het Stadhuis op de Dam

Hubert Quellinus, 1655

Engraving of the Farnese Hercules statue seen from behind, with two onlookers at lower right and Latin inscriptions below.

The Farnese Hercules, from Three Famous Antique Statues at Rome

Hendrick Goltzius, 1592, published 1617

Engraving of a classical statue of nude bearded Hercules with lion skin and an infant, on an inscribed pedestal.

The Emperor Commodus as Hercules, from Three Famous Antique Statues at Rome

Hendrick Goltzius, 1592, published 1617