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Mythology

7,962 works

Pastel portrait of a young woman with a green and blue flowered headdress and pink striped shawl, against a yellow background

Bacchante Triste

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Engraving of Hercules on horseback abducting a nude woman while a fallen figure lies beneath rearing horses; Latin caption ab

Hercules Kidnapping Jole

Sebald Beham, 1544

Engraving of nymphs bathing in a pond while a seated woman gestures toward them, in a wooded landscape.

Diana discovers the pregnancy of Callisto

Karl Agricola, 1811

Engraving with two panels of muscular nude figures and grotesque masks framing oval scenes of mythological figures, dated 165

Apollo and Marsyas / Boreas and Oreithyia

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Etched print with nude male figures, putti and a medallion showing a seated figure with a bull, within ornamental framing.

Orpheus and Eurydice / Rape of Europa

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraving of Perseus raising Medusa's head as soldiers and nude figures turn to stone in a classical interior.

Perseus turns his enemies to stone with the head of Medusa

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraving with paired panels of muscular nude figures, putti and medallions depicting mythological embraces, by Carlo Cesio,

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus / Cupid and Pan

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraving of Venus and Anchises with a winged cupid beside a pedestal inscribed GENVS VNDE LATINVM, before draped curtains.

Venus and Anchises

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraving of Diana embracing the sleeping Endymion in a landscape, with two putti peering from foliage and a dog at right.

Diana and Endymion

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraving with nude male figures, bathers in a circular medallion, grotesque masks and fruit garlands in an ornamental frame.

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraving of Jupiter and Juno embracing on a bed, with an eagle and a peacock beside them.

Jupiter and Juno

Carlo Cesio, 1656

Engraved oval portrait of a clergyman in a cassock and white collar, with a coat of arms and inscription below.

André Hercules de Fleury; Former Bishop of Fréjus Tutor of the King. Minister of State; Abbot of the abbeys of Tournu…

François Chéreau, 1729

Engraving of Bacchus reclining on a chariot pulled by big cats, with satyrs, putti, and women with pipes and fruit baskets.

Triumph of Bacchus

Giulio Bonasone, 1501

Engraving of a crowned king and bearded men facing muscular satyrs beside a donkey and a tree, with a sprawled figure in fron

Two satyrs bring Silenus to King Midas

Giulio Bonasone, 1501

Engraving of three nude male figures on a rocky shore beneath a cloud where two enthroned figures sit, with sea and a winged

Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto divide the universe

Giulio Bonasone, 1501

Engraving of Apollo driving a sun chariot over clouds, with a reclining nude couple and a cupid in the foreground.

Apollo in his sun chariot

Giulio Bonasone, 1501

Engraving of Neptune standing in a shell chariot pulled by sea horses over waves, with figures in clouds above.

Neptune in his chariot

Giulio Bonasone, 1501

Pencil and ink sketch of a classical female statue with turned head, bare torso and draped cloth, on a sketchbook page.

Copy after the sculpture Venus de Milo

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Engraving of two horned satyrs and three nude nymphs bathing in a stream beside a rocky cave under trees.

Three nymphs and two satyrs bathing

Giulio Bonasone, 1501

Engraving of female figures in a wooded landscape, one reading an open book beneath trees, with an angel at left and Latin te

Minerva Surrounded by Female Figures

Jan Saenredam, 1606

Sepia print of Perseus seated with winged helmet and sandals, facing three draped sea nymphs standing beside a pool.

Perseus and the Sea Nymphs. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1877

Engraved portrait of a cardinal in an oval medallion, held by a bearded philosopher with a lantern, with flowers and text bel

Andreas Hercules Cardinal de Fleury. Royal French Minister of State, Grand Master and Chief Collector of all posts of…

Gabriel Bodenehr, 1743

Sepia engraving of a harbor with a large sailing ship, classical buildings, rowboats and figures on the quay under a hazy sky

Seaport with Odysseus returning Chryseis to Chryses

Richard Earlom, 1774

Engraving of robed figures in a classical hall preparing an offering at a garlanded altar, with a flute player and kneeling a

A calf is prepared to be sacrificed to Juno

Bernard Picart, 1683

Sepia wash drawing of a laurel-crowned woman reading a book beside a reclining man in a leafy forest setting.

Muse and Poet

Alfred Edward Chalon, n.d.

Watercolor of a horned Hercules beetle in side view, with a long curved black horn and speckled tan wing cases on cream paper

A Hercules beetle (dynastes hercules)

Pieter Holsteyn, 1600-1700

Pen and pencil sketch of nude warriors battling rearing centaurs, one figure raising a sword, with loose background figures.

Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs

Attributed to Joshua Cristall, n.d.

Engraving of Hercules with a bow beside a rearing centaur pierced by an arrow, beneath a tree, by Sebald Beham, 1542.

Hercules Killing Nessus

Sebald Beham, 1542

Brown wash drawing of Phaeton struggling with rearing horses in a chariot beneath a radiant Apollo figure in clouds.

Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Apollo

Jean Jouvenet, 1680

Watercolor of white wood nymph flowers on slender stems above round green leaves against a pale background.

Wood Nymph (Moneses uniflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Grey wash drawing of putti in an oval frame with grapes, a vessel and a staff, playing with Bacchus attributes.

Putti with the attributes of Bacchus

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Engraved study sheet with a centaur, a standing figure, and several male and female heads in varied expressions.

Study sheet with drawing examples: centaur, standing figure and heads

Michael Snijders, 1610