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Mythology

8,115 works

Lithograph of a veiled, draped classical female statue holding a scroll, titled Juno Lucina, after John Flaxman, 1829.

Juno Lucina

William Fairland after John Flaxman, published 1829

Engraving of a bacchanal with a maenad, satyrs, a lyre, grapevine, putti carrying grapes, and a goat.

A Bacchanal

Battista Franco Veneziano, 1530-61

Engraving of Mercury in a winged helmet grasping the mane of the rearing winged horse Pegasus over a wooded landscape.

Mercurius en Pegasus

Melchior Küsel, 1670

Engraving of a helmeted hero leading a rearing horse with flowing mane across a hilly landscape, with a German caption below.

Hercules en Bucephalus

Melchior Küsel, 1670

Engraving of Argonauts on a ship as a muscular merman rises from rough sea waves beside the hull.

Euphemus ontvangt de kluit aarde en Triton wijst de Argonauten de weg

Joseph Anton Koch, 1799

Drawing of Bacchus with vine crown and jug beside an urn, with putti and a seated woman among grapevines and a tree.

Arcadian Scene with Bacchus

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Study of Perseus and Andromeda in blue-toned gouache, with a nude figure and a winged-helmet hero among swirling curved forms

Perseus and Andromeda, study for The Doom Fulfilled

Edward Burne-Jones, 1875

Engraving of Hercules with a raised club fighting a many-headed hydra beside a tree and rocks.

Hercules Killing the Hydra of Lerna

Battista Franco Veneziano, after 1552

Engraving of a centaur carrying off a draped woman as an archer draws a bow beside a tree, with a reclining nude holding flow

The Abduction of Dejanira

Battista Franco Veneziano, 16th century

Engraving of nude Andromeda chained to a rock as Perseus on winged Pegasus attacks a sea monster below.

Perseus Freeing Andromeda

Hendrick Goltzius, 1583

Tapering print of Venus and Eros above stacked ornamental panels with masks, vases and scrollwork.

Sheath with Venus and Eros

Monogrammist IB

Drawing of a man approaching a wounded woman by classical ruins, with a flying cupid, dogs, and tall trees.

Silvio Approaches Dorinda whom He Has Wounded with an Arrow (Il Pastor Fido, act IV, scene 8)

Richard van Orley, ca. 1700

Grey wash drawing of Christ on a cross appearing above a kneeling monk, with angels, putti and watching saints on steps.

Christ Appearing to St. Bernard

Johann Georg Wolcker, 1700-1766

Engraving of Venus embracing winged Mercury, with a winged putto above holding a torch and a reclining nude below.

Venus and Mercury

Pieter de Jode, 1590

Engraving of Venus seated on a rock with Cupid beside a tree, and a sea god with a trident in the distant sea.

Landschap met Venus en Amor

Pieter de Jode, 1590

Engraving of a centaur carrying a woman away while a nude archer aims a bow beside a tree and rocks.

The abduction of Dejanira held by the centaur Nessus

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraved ornamental panel with a figure of Diana holding a crescent moon, flanked by stags, hounds and scrollwork.

Diana

Etienne Delaune

Engraving of Diana and her nymphs resting in a forest with hunting dogs, a quiver of arrows, and a satyr behind a tree.

Diana resting with her nymphs

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraving of a seated bearded man under a statue of Bacchus while figures kneel and approach in a colonnaded hall.

Man Seated Beneath a Statue of Bacchus, Receiving an Audience

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraved mythological banquet scene with vases, a grapevine arbor, an elephant, a flying putto, and reclining figures among l

The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (right panel)

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Pen drawing of a veiled woman in a chariot drawn by peacocks, a rainbow behind her and a nude youth standing at right.

Juno in a Chariot Pulled by Peacocks

Unknown artist

Pencil drawing of nine classical women with musical instruments on a rocky slope beside a winged horse.

The Muses on Parnassus

Pieter de Grebber, 17th century

Etching of Diana reclining with a dog, falcon and spear, with a distant city and sheep in the landscape behind her.

Diana

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1688

Engraving of the goddess Diana drawing back a curtain while a woman with raised arms and a bearded priest stand before a pede

Diana

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1787

Pen and grey wash drawing of nude women in a forest clearing, one embracing a goat-headed satyr, with children nearby.

Women Bathing in a Wood, Surprised by a Satyr

Balthasar Katzenberger, 1580-1627

Engraving of a chained nude woman on a rock, a winged horse and rider above, and a sea monster below.

Perseus en Andromeda

Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881

Engraved frieze of Neptune in a sea-horse chariot with tritons, a trident and putti over rolling waves.

Frieze with Neptune and Tritons

Girolamo Mocetto, ca. 1500-1530

Engraved vertical ornament print with a candelabrum, putti, a triton, and dense scrollwork in black and white.

Kandelaber met triton en viool

Zoan Andrea, 1505

Engraving of Mars and nude Venus with Cupid drawing a bow, Mars holding a flaming heart, Latin text below.

Mars en Venus

Crispijn van de Passe, 1589

Engraving of Mercury and Minerva embracing, with a caduceus, a shield with Medusa head, and a Latin inscription below.

Mercurius en Minerva

Crispijn van de Passe, 1589

Engraving of nude Bacchus holding grapes, with satyrs, dancing revelers, and overturned wine cups in an oval frame.

Bacchus

Crispijn van de Passe, 1574

Engraving of two muscular nude men wrestling in a rocky landscape beside a tree, with hills in the distance.

Hercules worstelt met Antaeus

Crispijn van de Passe, 1574