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Mythology

8,099 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bacchanalian scene with a nude nymph, pouring attendants, playful putti, grapes and a classic

Bacchanalian Scene with Nymphs and Putti

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Ink floor plan of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Phigaleia showing outer colonnade and inner cella with dimension lines.

Grundriss des Tempels des Apollo Epicurius in Phigaleia

Josef Wilhelm Durm, 1880

Woodcut of a winged hero with a sword attacking a sea monster near a chained nude woman on a rocky shore.

Voorstelling van Perseus en Andromeda, 1577

Antoni van Leest, 1577

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk of Hercules seated on a rock as a youth crowns him with laurel, a winged figure above.

Crowning of Hercules

Possibly Paolo de Matteis, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of a helmeted nude warrior with a shield and a small winged child reaching toward him.

Mars and Cupid (recto); Female Standing Figure with a Helmet and a Shield (Bellona?) (verso)

Andrea Schiavone, 1501-63

Pencil drawing of a nude woman with raised arms, her body entwined with laurel branches and flowing hair.

Daphne

Style of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, n.d.

Etching of a helmeted hero freeing a nude woman chained to rocks beside a sea monster, with a winged horse above.

Perseus Saving Andromeda

Giovanni David, 1775

Engraving in an oval frame of women and a winged child resting on clouds, with a cornucopia at the right edge.

Juno seated on a cloud

Engraved frieze of tritons, nymphs, sea horses and putti riding across waves.

Frieze with Tritons and Nymphs

Girolamo Mocetto, 1490-1530

Etching of a naiad beside an overturned urn pouring water, with a triton and sea figures rising from the waves and putti at l

Water, represented by a naiad seated at the base of a tree and resting her arm on a supine urn from which water flows…

Giulio Carpioni, 1640-60

Engraving of two sea gods with fish tails and four nude nymphs at a stone table under a tree, with doves flying overhead.

Two sea gods accompanied by four nymphs

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Color print of Venus at her toilette, nude and reclining, attended by cherubs and doves beside draped curtains and a classica

The Toilet of Venus

Jean François Janinet, 1783

Pen and brown ink drawing of a central fighting scene framed by warriors, putti and oval roundels on a pale sheet.

Antique Warriors and Mythological Subjects

Circle of Donato Creti, n.d.

Line print of a robed student toasting beside an allegorical woman, with a marching band and banners below, dated 1889.

Gedenkblad van Vox Studiosorum, ter gelegenheid van het 50 jarig bestaan der Studentensocieteit Minerva te Leiden

Pieter de Josselin de Jong, 1889

Drawing of Neptune and Amphitrite in a shell chariot pulled by two sea horses, with a trident and a distant castle.

Neptune and Amphitrite

Hans Ulrich Franck, 1595-1675

Colored drawing of a classical decorative wall design with mythological scenes, Zeus and Athena above and cattle and centaurs

Geburt der Athena - Jugend des Dionysos - Hermes, die Rinder des Apollo wegtreibend - Erziehung des Achill durch Chiron

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Pen drawing of a child wrestling two snakes between a draped woman reaching toward light and a startled bearded man.

Herakles, als Kind die Schlangen würgend

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Pencil drawing of a seated muscular man, Herakles, playing with children and putti beside a lion skin.

Herakles, mit seinen Kindern scherzend

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Grey lithograph of nude Venus reclining in a forest beside Adonis, with cherubs and hunting dogs in the foreground.

Venus en Adonis

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1845

Pen and wash drawing of Herakles holding up a celestial sphere while a seated figure drinks from a cup beside him.

Herakles, das Himmelsgewölbe tragend

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Pen drawing of two nude male wrestlers locked in combat, one lifting the other, with pencil grid lines beneath.

Herakles und Antaios

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Pencil design drawing of a classical frieze with a temple pediment, relief panels, running mythological figures and hounds.

Kephalos und Prokris - Endymion - Narziss - Meleager und Atalante - Artemis, den Aktaion verfolgend

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Engraving of a triton carrying a reclining nymph over rippling waves toward a rocky shore.

A Triton Carrying off a Nymph, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Pencil sketch of a mythological frieze with an enthroned bearded god, a standing armored goddess, and reclining figures.

Die Geburt der Athena

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

White drawing on red ground of dancing satyrs and bacchantes around a central herm of Dionysus, with musicians and vines.

Tanz von Satyrn und Bacchantinnen um die Herme des Dionysos

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Engraved print of four classical medallion designs labeled Mercure, Pan, Amour and Diane, with two central vases.

Mercurius, Pan, Amor en Diana

C. Le Meunnié, 1784

Etched print of four ornamental medallions labeled Tragedie, Junon, Jupiter and Hymen, with two classical urns between them.

Tragedie, Juno, Jupiter en Hymen

C. Le Meunnié, 1784

Engraved print with four round medallions of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo and Ceres flanking two decorative urns.

Bacchus, Flora, Apollo en Ceres

C. Le Meunnié, 1784

Engraving of a tiered garden cascade with a Narcissus statue, elegantly dressed visitors and cypress trees in a formal garden

Narcissus cascade in de tuin van Paleis Het Loo

Laurens Scherm, 1689

Pencil drawing of Orpheus playing a lyre among a lion, stag, rabbit and birds in a tree.

Orpheus unter den Tieren

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Engraved allegory of a winged trumpeter, a kneeling figure offering a book to a seated warrior with a lion, 1667.

Allegorische Szene: Minerva präsentiert der Personifikation der Spanischen Monarchie ein Buch (Frontispiz für "Biblio…

Teresa del Pò, 1667

Engraving of a satyr playing a pipe beside a nude nymph nursing an infant among tree trunks, by Albrecht Dürer.

Satyr und Nymphe (Die Satyrfamilie)

Albrecht Dürer, 1505