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Mythology

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Engraving of nude Hercules raising a club as a centaur grips him from behind beside a bare tree.

Hercules and Nessus

Marcantonio Raimondi, c. 1504/1509

Engraving of Leda with a swan and cupids beside broken eggshells, with a ruined domed building and landscape behind.

Leda and the Swan

Giovanni Battista Palumba, c. 1510

Pencil sketch of caricatured musicians playing double bass, horn, drum and lute outdoors, with a building in the background.

The Muses

David Claypoole Johnston, 1830

Engraving of Juno in a robe and crown gesturing to a charioteer driving horses toward a setting sun over the sea.

Juno commands the sun to set

Tommaso Piroli, 1805

Pastel drawing of Medusa with snake-hair, wide eyes, open mouth and clawed hand reaching forward against dark blue tones.

Medusa (Laura Dreyfus Barney)

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Etching of draped figures offering at a classical courtyard with an arched statue niche, palm trees, and a torch.

Offering to Venus

Johannes Glauber, 1656

Etching of a classical allegory: a helmeted woman shields a nude figure from satyrs and musicians near arches and trees.

Minerva protects innocence against temptation

Johannes Glauber, 1656

Etching of sirens on rocks beside a ship with sailors on deck, rendered in fine hatched lines on paper.

Odysseus and the Sirens

Johannes Glauber, 1656

Etching of the goddess Diana seated on a cloud with bow, spear and putti, with rays of light across the sky.

Diana with bow and arrow on a cloud

Johannes Glauber, 1656

Engraving of Venus reclining against a tree as a winged Cupid crowns her with flowers, with cherubs at her feet.

Venus and Cupid - Spring

Johannes Glauber, 1656

Etching of Minerva with spear and shield beside an owl, as a seated figure sits in a dark stone cell behind a door.

Minerva locks up Discord in a cell

Johannes Glauber, 1656

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a tree, with a shield and club and a walled city in the background.

Hercules Killing the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1548

Engraving of Hercules lying on a fiery pyre while a nude man watches from the right, with a city in the distance.

Death of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1548

Pen and ink sketch of nude nymphs hoisting a heavy load, with studies of figures and poses around the central group.

The loading of the hunting booty by the nymphs of Diana

Peter Paul Rubens, 1611

Etching of Ariadne kneeling on a rocky shore, reaching toward a distant sailing ship on rough sea.

[Illustration to "Theseus" by Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker] : [Incipit:] Theseus leaves Ariadne on the island of Naxos. 4

Daniel Chodowiecki, 1794

Engraving of a seated sculptor with chisel and mallet beside a nude figure on a pedestal, with classical architecture behind.

Sculptor works on a statue of Hercules

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Engraving of Hercules Musagetes holding a lyre and lion skin, beside a flaming altar, cornucopia and classical architecture.

Hercules as leader of the muses

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Engraving of a seated veiled woman with a book beside a Vesta altar, classical columns and statues in an arcade.

Vestal virgins at an altar for the goddess Vesta

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Engraving of a woman driving a sun chariot through clouds while a laurel-crowned man reaches for the reins, with a city below

Apollo in the sun chariot

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Engraving of a woman tending a child in a bed, with attendants and laurel branches under arches, Latin title above.

Cupid is cared for by Venus

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Engraving of women attacking a slumped man beneath a tree, with a classical city and dogs in the background.

Orpheus is killed by the raging women of Ciconia

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Woodcut of Hercules fighting Cacus among trees and a distant town, with a sword-wielding figure and birds overhead.

Hercules Conquering Cacus ("Ercules")

Albrecht Dürer, 1496

Pastel portrait of a woman with grape leaves and clusters of grapes in her hair, wearing a pink garment against a green backg

Bacchante

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil drawing of a long-haired woman seated on rocks by the sea, with billowing white drapery and a wreath at her feet.

Copy of the composition probably depicting Ariadne auf Naxos

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1881

Engraving of Mars and Venus embracing, the nude god holding a spear and plumed helmet, with Venus draped beside him.

Mars and Venus

Domenico Marchetti, 1790

Engraving of a reclining woman as Venus Victrix on an ornate couch, with Italian title and dedication text below.

Pauline Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix

Domenico Marchetti, 1816

Engraving of a classical marble statue of Venus on a circular pedestal, with drapery held at her chest and hips.

Venus

Domenico Marchetti, 1790

Engraved print of Canova's sculpture Amor and Psyche, two figures embracing on a pedestal, with dedicatory inscription below.

Amor and Psyche

Domenico Marchetti, 1814

Engraving of a reclining marble statue of Endymion on a pedestal, with a dog and arrows beside him.

Endymion

Domenico Marchetti, 1790

Engraving of nude sea nymphs surrounding an ornate ship as a helmeted warrior stands on deck, with sailing ships behind.

Aeneas' fleet surrounded by sea nymphs

Jacob Folkema, 1743

Chalk drawing of a classical plaster bust of a bearded man with curled hair and grape clusters, on a pedestal.

Plaster Bust of a Mythological Male Figure, academy study

Oscar Kleineh, 1867

Loose charcoal sketch on gray paper of two women in drapery and shadowy figures above, signed Ensor 1877.

Mythological scene

James Ensor, 1877