New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Mythology

8,099 works

Etching of a satyr family beside a ruined wall and obelisk, with a seated woman, a child, and scattered objects on the ground

Satyr Family with an Obelisk, plate 11 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Pencil sketch of a woman with long hair, head bowed, with faint figure studies beneath her on pale paper.

Head of a man and figure studies (recto). Minotaur with a maiden (verso)

Theodor Richard Edward von Holst, 1835-44

Etching of a seated woman with a reclining satyr child, goats, a tree and a distant village in a landscape.

Woman with an Infant Satyr, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of a winged nude figure flying before a radiant sun, with a bow-wielding figure and zodiac signs below.

Apollo en de dierenriem

Jacob van der Schley, 1725

Engraved allegory with seated female figures, a Justinian bust, Corpus Juris book, scales, sword and law tablets, with Latin

Allegorie met Minerva en deugden

François van Bleyswijck, 1728

Engraving of Hercules carrying two classical columns through a courtyard with arcades and a rotunda, a city behind.

Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1540

Woodcut of Jason and Medea approaching a columned altar by the sea, framed by ornate scrollwork, with German and Latin verse

Jason en Medea bij het altaar van Diana

Virgilius Solis, 1569

Woodcut of Hercules fighting the three-headed dog Cerberus by a stone archway, framed by an ornate scrolled border.

Hercules en Cerberus

Virgilius Solis, 1569

Woodcut of Jupiter in clouds above a robed man and small figures emerging near a tree, framed by ornamental borders.

Jupiter verandert mieren in de Myrmidonen

Virgilius Solis, 1569

Etching of two muscular male torsos and a faun with shaggy legs, drawn in fine cross-hatched lines.

Twee mannentorso's en een faun

Jan de Bisschop, 1666

Etching of two male torsos and a faun figure with goat legs, drawn after classical marble sculpture.

Twee mannentorso's en een faun

Jan de Bisschop, 1668

Engraving of nude Venus seated on a shell with sea nymphs, a bearded Triton with trident, and cherubs in clouds above.

Venus, Triton, and Sea Nymphs

Pieter Soutman, 1640

Engraving of Hercules on a fiery pyre with a nude figure beside him, a distant walled town and a river on the right.

The Death of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1540

Pen etching of a satyr and bacchante in ivy wreaths seated on a lion skin, with a horned female faun and a tent behind them.

Copy of Bacchante, Satyr, and Female Faun, from the series Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Ink drawing of two stacked ornamental masks: a winged Medusa head with snakes below and a bearded satyr face above.

Design for Two Masks Shaped as Satyr and a Winged Medusa Head

Carlo Bianconi, 1752-1802

Grey wash drawing of classical women in an arcaded interior, one holding a mirror and another a sword, with a kneeling man of

Achilles herkend door de dochters van Lycomedes

Matthijs Balen, 1694

Pen and grey wash drawing of Apollo speaking to Vulcan beside an anvil in a vaulted forge interior.

Apollo brengt Vulcanus op de hoogte van het overspel van Venus met Mars

Matthijs Balen, 1694

Pen and wash drawing of a reclining nude nymph, a figure in drapery, cherubs and an eagle in a wooded landscape.

Jupiter, vermomd als Diana, verleidt de nimf Callisto

Matthijs Balen, 1694

Engraving of Hercules struck by a woman with a club, with nude figures, a satyr, a child and a castle in the landscape.

Hercules at the Crossroads (The Effects of Jealousy)

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Pen and wash drawing of a chained nude woman on a rock, a helmeted man pointing at a sea monster, and kneeling figures on a s

Andromeda en Perseus

Matthijs Balen, 1694

Engraving of a horned satyr playing a flute beside a nude woman nursing an infant among gnarled trees.

The Satyr Family

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

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

Engraving of nude smiths hammering at an anvil in a stone forge, with small winged putti working among them.

The Forge of Vulcan

Louis Elle I after Francesco Primaticcio

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

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

Engraving of nude Orpheus playing a lyre beside a tree, with a three-headed dog and rocky cliff at left.

Orpheus

Agostino Veneziano, 1528

Etching of an eagle above roosters and hens fighting near eggs, with a bearded figure in the clouds at upper left.

Titelblad voor het pamflet: Het Geschil Tusschen de Fransche Haan, en Lombaardsche Hennen, Beslegt door Jupiter, 1701

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1701

Etching of a kneeling man in a wig and spectacles beside a flowering plant and a thistle, with a colonnaded building behind.

Titelblad voor het pamflet: Rouwklagt van de Fransche Apollo over de Verdorde Distelbloem, 1701

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1701

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a column, with a castle, tree, shield and bow in the background.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of a sleeping nude Venus beneath a tree with a winged Cupid resting against her, with a landscape behind.

Sleeping Venus and Cupid

Theodoor Galle, 1590

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 Hercules and Dejanira embracing nude under an oak tree, with a centaur and archer in the distant landscape.

Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods

Netherlandish Jacob Matham, 1590