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Mythology

8,026 works

Woodcut of a muscular nude Hercules grappling with a bull while cattle crowd the wooded background, with a club on the ground

Hercules Carrying Off the Cattle of Geryon

Engraved print of a satyr with fruit basket beside a reclining nude woman and a putto, mounted on cream paper.

Caracci's Bacchante, Uffizi Gallery

Fratelli Alinari, about 1856-1872

Engraving of nude Hercules seated on a lion skin with a clothed woman embracing him, a billowing cloth above them.

Hercules and Deianira

Brown wash drawing of Venus and Cupid with nude putti, a bearded old man, and armored onlookers in a landscape.

Allegorie op de macht van Venus

Jan de Bisschop, 1638

Pencil drawing of seated Zeus on an ornate throne holding a scepter and a winged Victory figure.

Thronender Zeus mit Szepter und Victoria-Statuette

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1820

Etching of a seated nymph and a triton flanking a central tablet inscribed AQUA, beneath a carved cartouche.

Fontein met links een nimf en rechts een triton

Charles-François Hutin, 1758

Monochrome print of a seated classical figure raising a bow while a winged child reaches for it against a shaded background.

Venus ontwapent Amor

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1780

Grey wash drawing of nude figures in dramatic poses before a dark tree, with a figure reaching outward in alarm.

Apollo and Daphne

Master of the Giants, 1770

Charcoal and pastel drawing of Apollo driving a sun chariot over blue mountains, with birds and a golden sun disc.

De zonnegod Apollo in zijn wagen

Willem van Konijnenburg, 1924

Engraved print of a nude woman wringing out her hair on steps, flanked by draped women playing harps and lutes.

The Bath of Venus. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1973

Etching of Mars reclining near a chariot and dog, with the Graces and flying putti in the clouds above.

Mars and the Graces

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, 1760

Hand-colored print of Jupiter above a warship with cannons, and below, Saturn on a dragon chariot over a city.

Jupiter en een oorlogsschip met het wapen van Alessandro Farnese

Jan Sadeler, 1585

Pencil sketch of a seated male nude twisting toward a hooked-beak bird, likely an eagle, on rocky ground.

Prometheus

Pen and brown ink drawing of Venus and Mars embracing beneath a canopy, with a sleeping cupid and armor in the foreground.

Venus and Mars

Richard Cosway, 1790

Engraving of nude classical figures with a harp, fruit basket, flowers and trumpet in a rocky landscape.

Mythological and Allegorical Subjects

Jacob Matham, 1588

Graphite drawing of a nude male faun holding panpipes aloft, with a draped animal skin beside him.

A Faun with Pipes

Richard Parkes Bonington

Pen and colored drawing of haloed women and a reclining figure by the sea, with masons building a brick wall at right.

The Arrival of the Muses of Art at Architecture

Jan Toorop, 1890

Engraving of Pallas in a plumed helmet with a Medusa shield, spear raised, standing over a fallen giant amid clouds.

Minerva

Egbert van Panderen, 1590

Engraving of nude Venus on clouds with a cupid drawing a bow, a putto at right, and two doves in flight above.

Venus

Egbert van Panderen, 1590

Medaillons met portret van Joannes Lami en voorstelling van Athena

Carlo Gregori, 1754

Engraving of the god Neptune with a trident and laurel branch in a classical niche, with two winged putti above.

Neptune

Hendrick Goltzius, 1592

Etching of a wounded centaur rearing on a grassy plain while nude riders with spears pursue it toward a distant town.

Pursued Centaur

Max Klinger, 1879

Engraving of Hercules lifting and wrestling Antaeus in an embrace, with a tower and buildings behind them.

Hercules and Antaeus

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1529

Brown wash drawing of a female figure and cupid leading a young man away from a sleeping centaur on rocky ground.

Eine weibliche Gestalt (Venus?) führt in Begleitung eines Amorknaben einen Jüngling von einem schlafenden Kentaur (Ch…

Pietro Antonio Novelli

Pencil sketch of Neptune with a trident riding a sea creature, beside loose studies of a woman and a seated figure on torn pa

Neptune

Engraving of robed figures offering incense at an altar before a seated Apollo with a lyre, in a colonnaded hall.

Offer aan Apollo

Bernard Picart, 1719

Pen drawing of Hercules raising a club while a multi-headed hydra coils at his feet, on a grey-toned sheet.

Hercules en de Hydra

Abraham van Strij, 1763

Black chalk study on brown paper of Venus with a winged Cupid clinging to her leg, one arm outstretched.

Study for the figures of Venus and Cupid (recto)

Simon Vouet, 1630

Etching of a group of figures on a rocky shore by calm water, with a seated figure in the foreground under a hazy sky.

Orpheus

Mina Arndt, 1915

Ink study sketches of nude male figures, including a youth holding a sprig and a bearded man, on cream paper.

Apollo and Marsyas

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Engraving of a reclining woman beside a cornucopia of fruit and vegetables, with a satyr figure and draped curtain at left.

Allegorie op de vruchtbaarheid van de aarde (Jupiter en Antiope)

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560

Oval drawing of a seated woman, a putto with a trumpet and another winged putto among clouds, in grey pencil on paper.

Die Muse der Musik mit zwei Genien, deren einer eine Trompete trägt