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Mythology

7,981 works

Woodcut of centaurs fighting near a house, with an ornate urn at left and swirling waves in the sky at right.

Centaurs in battle near a house

Charles Ricketts, 1893

Black and white engraving of an ornate ewer with a figure of Neptune holding a trident and sea creatures on its bowl.

Jar with Neptune

Wenzel Jamnitzer

Engraving of a drapery-clad figure in a chariot drawn by horses, with radiating sun rays and clouds below.

The Setting of the Sun with Chariots of Apollo and Diana

Engraving of Perseus showing a Medusa shield to Phineus in an oval cartouche, framed by putti, hounds and sea monsters.

Perseus shows his Medusa shield to Phineus, from Oval Cartouches with Scenes from the Life of Perseus in a Frame with…

Abraham de Bruyn, 1584

Engraving of a reclining nude woman with a veil, set before dense trees and a distant castle, by Giulio Campagnola.

Venus Reclining in a Landscape

Giulio Campagnola, c. 1508-9

Pencil and ink sketch of a vaulted arcaded loggia with handwritten French annotations naming the ceiling scenes.

"Vue de la salle de Psyche". View of the Psyche loggia in the Roman Villa Farnesina

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of Venus seated on a cloud beside her chariot, holding reins, with birds nearby.

Venus seated next to her chariot on the clouds

François-Alexandre Verdier, 1661

Engraved ornamental panel with Hercules beside a stag and a boar, flanking a central relief of arms and armor.

Relief flanked by Hercules with the Arcadian stag and Hercules with the boar of Erymanthus

Louis Surugue, 1713

Engraved relief design with muscular Hercules figures flanking a central framed cartouche, a bull, a horse, and a cherub.

Relief flanked by Hercules with the Bull of Crete and Hercules with a Horse of Diomedes

Louis Surugue, 1713

Engraved print of a long relief with Hercules, a lion, a winged sphinx, garlands and architectural friezes, dated 1714.

Relief flanked by Hercules with Cerberus and Hercules with an Apple of the Hesperides

Louis Surugue, 1714

Engraved panoramic print of a ceiling design with mythological scenes of Hercules, framed by garlands and cartouches.

Ceiling with the apotheosis of Hercules

Matthijs Pool, 1718

Etching of a sleeping nymph with a satyr holding drapery and a putto beside her, set in a wooded landscape.

Sleeping nymph with satyr and putto

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1748

Pencil drawing of a nude man running over mountains, carrying a torch whose flame streams toward a city below at night.

Torch-Prometheus

Karl Wiener, 1942

Woman in patterned kimono tying a curtain beside a hanging chrysanthemum vase and a narcissus arrangement, Japanese woodblock

A Woman Tying up a Curtain, a Flower Arrangement of Chrysanthemums in a Boat-shaped Hanging Vase, and Narcissus Arran…

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1805

Woodblock print of white suisen narcissus in a flat green dish on a red stand, with calligraphy at top right.

Flower Arrangement of Suisen (Narcissus) in a Flat Green Dish

Utagawa Toyohiro

Drawing of a woman as Diana with crescent moon tiara, laurel wreath and bow, rendered in chalk and watercolour on grey paper.

Diana

Abraham Delfos, 1795

Engraving of Hercules lifting and squeezing the giant Antaeus among rocks, with a tree and a Latin inscription.

Hercules Wrestling Antaeus

Sebald Beham, 1545

Grey wash drawing of a crowd around a bull sacrifice at a pedestal, with trumpeters and classical architecture at left.

The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune

Agostino Carracci, 1584

Etching of a crowned woman with a lion and a bearded sea god pointing beside spilled coins and jewels.

Venice receives the tributes of Neptune

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1745

Pencil drawing of a nude Venus with flowing hair standing beside a small Cupid holding a bow, with a faint figure at right.

Venus and Cupid

Engraving of Actaeon with stag antlers and hunting dogs, facing nude bathing nymphs at a stone fountain in a wooded grotto.

Diana and Actaeon

Crispijn van de Passe, 1602

Engraving of Venus and Mars on a bed, Cupid nearby, an older bearded figure pointing up at gods in the clouds.

Venus and Mars surprised by Vulcan

Crispijn van de Passe, 1602

Engraving of two figures embracing on a canopied bed, with a cherub above and a city view through an arched window at right.

Apollo seduces Leucothea

Crispijn van de Passe, 1602

Engraving of a winged hero attacking a sea monster near a chained nude woman on a rock, with a harbor town behind.

Perseus and Andromeda

Crispijn van de Passe, 1602

Engraving of a labyrinth in a landscape with a helmeted hero and a woman in the foreground, with Latin verses below.

Theseus and Ariadne

Crispijn van de Passe, 1602

Engraving of Hercules aiming a bow at the centaur Nessus carrying a woman across a river, with a distant town.

Hercules kills Nessus

Crispijn van de Passe, 1602

Engraving of nude women bathing by a fountain in a hilly landscape, with an archer and dog at right, Latin verse below.

Diana and Callisto

Crispijn van de Passe, 1602

Etching of a young man between a bear and a satyr beside a tree and rocky cave, with a Dutch and Latin caption below.

Jester dances with bear and satyr

Gérard de Lairesse, 1668

Etching of putti playing flute, trumpet and lute beneath drapery, with a winged horse Pegasus leaping above and a dog below.

Making music putti with Pegasus

Gérard de Lairesse, 1670

Engraving of Apollo with a torch beside a seated woman with a violin, a relief of musicians, and trees behind them.

Apollo and the invention of music

Gérard de Lairesse, 1675

Engraving of Apollo with laurel wreath and bow, standing beside a dragon within a framed niche.

Sculpture of Apollo in the western gallery of the City Hall on the Dam

Hubert Quellinus, 1655

Engraving of a bearded sculpted Jupiter with thunderbolt, eagle and ram in a niche, after Hubert Quellinus, 1655.

Sculpture of Jupiter in the southern gallery of the City Hall on the Dam

Hubert Quellinus, 1655