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Mythology

8,115 works

Engraving of three seated muses playing instruments beneath a winged putto with cymbals in an arched niche.

Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Pr…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre and Pan beside him, with a flying putto blowing a horn in an arched panel above.

Apollo, Pan, and a Putto Blowing a Horn, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of a reclining nude bearded hero beside a club and lion skin, with a harbor city and mountains behind him.

Hercules Resting from His Labors

Giorgio Ghisi, 1567

Engraving of Angelica and Medoro embracing beneath a tree while Medoro carves their names, with Cupid and a distant city.

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names in the bark of a tree; Cupid holding a torch in…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated nude woman on a rock holding a bundle, with handwritten inscriptions on the paper.

The Nymph of Capri

Attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi, n.d.

Engraving of the nude, muscular Farnese Hercules standing in a niche with a lion skin draped over a pedestal.

The Farnese Hercules

Giorgio Ghisi, late 1570s

Engraving of reclining nude Antiope with a satyr beside her, surrounded by fruit, vegetables and a cornucopia.

Jupiter and Antiope

Engraving of Paris choosing among three goddesses with Mercury between them, cherubs and chariots in the sky above.

The Judgment of Paris; Paris seated on a rock choosing between the goddesses Venus, Juno, and Minerva, the god Mercur…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1555

Pen drawing of a nude male figure beside a tree, with a river, distant domed city and arched bridge behind him.

Apollo Standing in a River Landscape

Donato Creti, 1720

Etching of five nude putti with grapes and drapery arranged in a shallow frieze, signed Peter van Avont.

Five boys and a satyr

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1625-77

Engraving of Hercules lifting Lichas by the ankle over his head, standing on a lion skin beside a garlanded pedestal.

Hercules and Lichas

Giovanni Folo, 1812

Engraving of nude Venus in an arched niche on a conch shell, with Cupid holding a bow beside her, 1526.

Plate 10: Venus in a niche, standing on a conch shell, with Cupid to her right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526

Engraving of nude Apollo with laurel wreath striding in a dark niche amid radiating sun rays and a chariot wheel.

Plate 11: Apollo riding his chariot in a niche, facing right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526

Engraving of nude Diana in an arched niche drawing an arrow from her quiver, with a deer beside her and a Latin inscription b

Plate 12: Diana standing in a niche, twisting to her left and pulling an arrow out of a quiver, with a deer to her ri…

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanal with reclining nude revelers, grapes, cherubs, and classical architecture beneath draped clo

Bacchanal

Adriaan van der Burg, early 18th century

Engraving of Mars and Venus: an armored warrior embraces a reclining nude woman on a draped bed while Cupid watches nearby.

Mars and Venus

Giovanni Battista Scultori

Green chiaroscuro woodcut of a muscular nude Hercules overpowering a struggling figure in a cave with cattle and skulls.

Hercules Killing Cacus

Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

Engraving of a Bacchic procession with elephants, camels, and lions moving through a colonnaded hall, attended by nude revele

The Indian Triumph of Bacchus

Enea Vico, ca. 1542

Engraving of a horned satyr embracing a seated nude youth beside drapery and a stone pedestal, with a goat at lower left.

Jupiter en Antiope

Cornelis Bos, 1537

Engraving of a nude woman with a snake coiled around her, beside a tree and rocky ground, with hills in the distance.

Jupiter en Proserpina

Cornelis Bos, 1537

Engraving of nude Leda seated by a tree embracing a swan, with a river and hills in the background.

Leda en de zwaan

Cornelis Bos, 1537

Grey wash drawing of a robed churchman among a crowd, with two flying cherubs above in an arched composition.

Saint Carl Borromäus

Melchior Steidl, late 17th-18th century

Engraving of a drunken Silenus held up by two companions, one woman holding a flowering branch, with Latin inscription below.

Dronken Silenus ondersteund door bacchanten

Frans van der Steen

Pen and brown ink drawing of a satyr playing pipes by a pool with a nymph and putto under trees.

Satyr, Nymph and Putto by Pool

After Michel Corneille, the Younger, n.d.

Engraving of muscular nude smiths hammering at an anvil in a stone forge, with cherubs tending tools in the foreground.

Vulcan's Forge

Engraving of Venus in a chariot pulled by swans, with cherubs and sea monsters moving across rough waves.

Venus in a Chariot drawn by Two Swans

Master IQV, ca. 1544

Engraving of reclining Venus with Cupid holding an arrow, two doves, and a chariot in clouds within an oval frame.

Venus and Cupid

Jan Saenredam, 1596

Engraved oval print of crowned Juno seated with a peacock, scepter, clouds and treasures in a coin-studded border.

Juno

Jan Saenredam, 1596

Sepia engraving of a seated woman in white robes among attendants in a classical temple with columns and a sculpted pedestal.

Hero und Leander im Tempel der Venus

Franz Valentin Durmer, 1799

Engraving of Venus on clouds with cupids handing Aeneas a shield and armour, a reclining river god and tree beside them.

Venus schenkt Aeneas zijn wapenrusting

Jean Baptiste de Poilly, 1679

Engraving of a nude statue of Diana with a crescent moon in her hair, holding a bow and arrow on a stone pedestal.

Plate 7: Diana; statue of the nude goddess standing on a socle, wearing a crescent moon in her hair and holding a bow…

Philips Galle, 1586

Engraving of Venus on a cloud with swans and Cupid while a man in a dark coat examines the child, with a song sheet below.

Venus met zwanen en Cupido op een wolk, een man ernaast onderzoekt het kind

Prot, 1795