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Mythology

8,099 works

Etching of Venus and Adonis embracing in a forest, with a cupid and dogs beside them, printed on a book page.

Venus en Adonis

Théodorus van Kessel, 1660

Pen drawing of three scrolled console brackets and an ornate console with a satyr head and putti on a light paper.

Design for Three Consoles Decorated with Foliage and Volutes and a Console with a Satyr Head Surmounted by Three Huma…

Agostino Mitelli, 1609-60

Engraving of Venus with a winged Cupid holding a bow, nude nymphs on a rocky shore, and birds flying in the sky.

Venus

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, c. 1465

Brown wash drawing of a nude youth carried skyward by an eagle through clouds, with drapery streaming behind him.

Jupiter and Ganymede

Joseph Heintz the Younger, 1626

Lithograph of a curly-haired child peeking around a tall panel, one hand on its edge, shaded against a dark background.

Cupid

Dominique Vivant Denon, 1817

Engraving of nude Hercules raising a club against a multi-headed Hydra coiled on rocks beside a tree.

Hercules in gevecht met de Hydra van Lerna

Battista Franco Veneziano, 1520

Lithograph of a young woman seated under a tree with a winged cupid embracing her shoulder.

Cupid and a Young Woman

Dominique Vivant Denon, 1817

Engraved architectural fountain design with a temple-like top, classical columns, and a Bacchus figure seated on a barrel.

Tempel met fontein en Bacchus op een ton

Joannes van Doetechum, 1568

Engraving of a coat of arms flanked by Minerva and Prudentia, with putti and a landscape background, 1729.

Wapenschild geflankeerd door Minerva en Prudentia

Christian Friedrich Fritzsch, 1729

Pen drawing of a theatrical stage set with ornate pavilions, domed cupolas and a central fountain topped by Neptune.

Designs for Stage Set: Three Pavillions in Background with "Oriental" (Ogival) Cupolas with Two Small Fountains betwe…

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, 1696-1756

Grey-toned illustration of a standing nymph flanked by a satyr and a nude figure, with a pearled border and Lamia Part I titl

A Nymph, To Whom All Hoofed Satyrs Knelt Head-peice, Part 1

Will Hicock Low, 1885

Etching of a warrior in scale armour reaching toward a white winged horse, with a robed man holding another horse beside a ro

Bellerophon vangt Pegasus

Marius Holleman, 1917

Seated woman in a flower crown and classical robe beside a stone basin on columns in a wooded grove, brown watercolor.

The Guarded Nymph Near-Smiling on the Green

Will Hicock Low, 1885

Brown and white drawing of a symmetrical ornamental panel with scrolls, satyrs, putti, monsters and a central human head.

Design for an Ornamental Panel with Rinceaux, Satyrs, Putti, Monsters and a Human Head

Giulio Campi, 1535-45

Pen and wash drawing of a two-basin fountain topped by a nude Venus figure flanked by putti.

Design for a Fountain with Two Basins One on Top of the Other and Statues of Venus and Putti on the Top

Francesco Fanelli, 1608-65

Pen drawing of a fountain with an oval basin, tritons, dolphins, grotesque heads and a figure of Neptune above.

Design for a Fountain with Sea Horses and Triton Base, Basin, Dolphins and Tritons, Three Grotesque heads and Neptune

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1550

Engraving of Apollo reaching for Daphne as she turns into a laurel branch, with a river god pouring water in the foreground.

Apollo en Daphne

Pieter van Gunst, 1659

Engraving of Bacchus and Ariadne seated together with a child holding grapes and a panther at their feet, after Titian.

Bacchus en Ariadne

Pieter van Gunst, 1659

Engraving of Mars embracing Venus on a bed, Venus holding a mirror, with Cupid, a helmet and ewer on the floor.

Mars en Venus

Pieter van Gunst, 1659

Engraving of Hercules and nude Deianira seated together beside a tree, with a cupid clinging to a club beneath a cloudy sky.

Hercules en Deïanira

Pieter van Gunst, 1659

Engraving of Jupiter, Juno and Io with a flying cupid and an eagle beside Jupiter against a stormy cloud sky.

Jupiter, Juno en Io

Pieter van Gunst, 1659

Engraving of Cupid leaning over reclining Psyche on a draped bed, with cherubs, a torch, vessels and a dog nearby.

Cupido en Psyche

Pieter van Gunst, 1659

Lithograph of nude Andromeda chained to a cliff, with a winged rider and sea monster in the distance.

Andromeda

Marie Philippe Coupin de La Couperie, c. 1819

Engraving of Apollo seated on Parnassus with muses and laurel-crowned poets, with cherubs holding wreaths above.

Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517-20

Engraved frieze of a bacchanal with Silenus supported by revelers, satyrs, a reclining woman and a Priapus statue.

A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at right a female satyr reclining on a bed and another…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-13

Engraving of Apollo shooting an arrow at the winged serpent Python beside a temple, with gods watching from clouds above.

Apollo Killing Python

Etienne Delaune

Engraving of Diana and Orion in a forest with hunting dogs, a leaping stag, and women near a tented camp.

Diana and Orion

Etienne Delaune

Brown ink drawing of Juno gesturing to a crowned Zeus in clouds, with winds and a peacock in an oval composition.

Juno, Zeus and Aeolus

after Pietro da Cortona, n.d.

Engraving of Diana seated on rocks with hunters, dogs and a distant harbor town, with a Latin inscription below.

Orion Killed by Apollo

Etienne Delaune

Engraving of Diana and nymphs mourning the nude body of Orion on a shore, with Jupiter in clouds above and a coastal city beh

Diana Mourning the Death of Orion

Etienne Delaune

Lithograph of the Apollo candle factory facade with a carriage, horses and pedestrians on a street, dated 1850.

7., Zieglergasse 15 - "Apollo-Kerzen-Fabrik im Apollo-Saale."

Franz Josef Xaver Sandmann, 1850

Lithograph of a workshop interior with workers among large wooden vats, arched windows and a chimney pipe overhead.

7., Zieglergasse 15 - Apollo-Kerzen-Fabrik - Innenansicht - "Arbeits-Saal No. I. im Apollo-Saale."

Franz Josef Xaver Sandmann, 1850