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Mythology

8,155 works

Engraved rococo vignette with allegorical women, garlands, a globe and musical instruments before a landscape, 1737.

Vignet met beeld van Diana van Efeze in een landschap

Engraved allegorical title page with a royal crown, unicorn, lion, trumpeting angel and inscription honouring King George.

Kroon op een kussen, omringd door een engel, putti, een eenhoorn, Minerva en Hercules

Nicolas Dorigny, 1735

Pen and ink sketch of several figures, including a standing man and a kneeling woman, on pale paper.

Sketch for the Judgment of Solomon (?); verso: Dancing Mythological Figures

Christian Gottlieb Schick, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a draped female figure beside a horse with curled mane, a winged figure and two putti above.

Diana and Hecate

Rosso Fiorentino, n.d.

Brown-toned print of a muscular nude Neptune statuette holding a trident, standing on an ornate pedestal with a dolphin.

Statuette of Neptune

John Baptist Jackson, 1738

Graphite drawing of a muscular male torso with arm raised over the head, ending in a coiled sea creature tail.

Zeemonster of triton met om het hoofd gebogen armen

Agostino Carracci, 1567

Engraving of draped figures around an open jewelry chest and a sword, with columns and trees in the background.

Achilles door Odysseus herkend temidden van de dochters van Lycomedes

Pietro del Po, 1620

Engraving of Diana and nymphs hunting, with dogs attacking a wild boar and a mountain landscape behind them.

Diana op jacht

Andrea Procaccini, 1681

Pen drawing of a vertical ornamental panel with scrolling foliage and a grotesque faun face at the centre.

Faun tussen bladornamenten

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552

Lithograph of a man in a rowing boat between two looming sea monsters on cliffs, with birds over a pale sea.

Willem Treub als Odysseus tussen Scylla en Charybdis

Marius Bauer, 1896

Engraving of a heraldic coat of arms with a wild man blowing hunting horns, a second wild man leading dogs, and grapevines.

Coat of Arms of Johann Tscherte

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraved title page with Apollo holding a lyre beside a portrait medallion, cherubs holding a banner reading Brandts Poëzy.

Apollo met portret van Caspar Brandt

Christoffel Lubienitzki, 1702

Engraving of Bacchus and Ariadne riding a chariot in a triumphal procession with satyrs, goats, and flying cherubs.

Triomf van Bacchus en Ariadne

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraved print with an oval cartouche showing Hercules fighting a centaur, framed by grotesque ornament, sphinxes and birds.

Ovale cartouche met Hercules in gevecht met een centaur

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1565

Engraving in an oval frame of Hercules seated on a lion skin with his club, embraced by Deianeira who holds up a cloth.

Hercules en Deianeira

Adamo Scultori, 1540

Engraving of a seated muscular man with a club facing two women beneath trees, with a Latin inscription below.

Hercules op de tweesprong

Adamo Scultori, 1540

Engraving of Diana and nymphs bathing as a stag-headed Actaeon approaches with hounds among classical ruins.

Diana en Aktaion

Monogrammist SF, 1558

Etching of winged Cupid nude, drawing a bow beside a tree stump, with grass and foliage in the background.

Amor of Apollo schietend met pijl en boog

Pierre-Alexandre Wille, 1763

Engraving of haloed saints kneeling and gazing up at an enthroned god and goddess on clouds, with cherub heads around.

Mythologische goden vereerd door Christelijke heiligen

Georg Friedrich Schmidt, 1774

Etched view of Piazza della Minerva in Rome with a church facade, an obelisk, a carriage, pedestrians and a distant dome.

Piazza della Minerva en de kerk de Santa Maria sopra Minerva te Rome

Giovanni Battista Falda, 1665

Engraving of Venus embracing Adonis, who holds a spear and two hunting dogs, with a sleeping Cupid in a forest.

Venus and Adonis

Raphaël Sadeler, 1610

Penning met het portret van Diana van Poitiers en de godin Diana met Amor

Bernard Picart, 1719

Monochrome print of a winged figure embracing a woman above a river in a wooded landscape, with birds in flight below.

Zephyrus and Psyche. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1865

Engraving of Psyche holding a lamp over the sleeping nude Cupid on a bed, with a dagger on a table beside them.

Cupid and Psyche

Claude Mellan, 1626

Engraving of nude women bathing at a grotto waterfall, a hunter at upper right, stag and hounds in the distant woods.

Diana Surprised by Actaeon

Aegidius Sadeler, 1586-1629

Etching of nymphs bathing in a forest pool beside a waterfall, with a goddess and hunting dogs in the foreground.

Diana ontdekt de zwangerschap van Callisto

Antonio Tempesta, 1565

Engraving of Perseus holding Medusa's head toward Atlas, a bearded muscular figure, amid trees and rocks, with a sea creature

Perseus changing Atlas into a mountain with the head of Medusa

Cherubino Alberti, 1570

Engraving of nude Apollo with laurel wreath holding a knife and the flayed skin of Marsyas, with a lyre at his feet.

Apollo met de huid van Marsyas

Richard Collin, 1675

Engraving of a bearded faun with a leaf wreath holding a small child, standing nude on a shaded ground.

Faun met kind

Richard Collin, 1677

Hand-colored print of an old sculptor carving a cherub beside a seated nude model in a cluttered classical studio.

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800

Engraving of Venus in a cloud chariot drawn by doves over a panoramic city and harbour scene with figures below.

De planeet Venus en zijn invloed op de wereld

Jan Sadeler, 1585

Pencil sketch of mythological figures, including a standing man, a reclining woman and a cherub, with clouds and a ship.

The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne

Francesco Solimena