Myth on Paper
Gods and legends worked in ink, chalk and print.
Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
Andrea Mantegna · Before 1475
The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess
Marcantonio Raimondi · Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1510–20
Florinda
Francis Xavier Winterhalter · 1853
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Charles Le Brun · 1647
Bacchanal
Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1635–36
Moses Striking the Rock
Abraham Bloemaert · 1596
The Sorrow of Telemachus
Angelica Kauffmann · 1783
Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso
Angelica Kauffmann · 1782
The Feast of Acheloüs
Peter Paul Rubens · Jan Brueghel the Elder · ca. 1615
Diana and Actaeon
Bartholomeus Spranger · ca. 1580–85
The Genius of Castiglione
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · Matthys van de Merwede, Lord of Clootwyck · Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · ca. 1645–47 (published 1648)
Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1742–45
Invocation to Love
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · c. 1781
Jupiter and Juno: Study for the "Furti di Giove" Tapestries
Perino del Vaga · ca. 1532–35
Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · Marcantonio Raimondi · ca. 1517–20
Bacchanal with Silenus
Andrea Mantegna · before 1475
The Satyr's Family
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1763
Satyr Family (Pan and his Family), from the Scherzi
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–50
Study for a Monument to a Princely Figure
François Boucher
Vertumnus and Pomona
François Boucher
Drunken Silenus holding a cup aloft into which a Satyr pours wine
Jusepe de Ribera · 1628
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 1)
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · Samuel Cousins · William Shakespeare · November , 1857
The Challenge of the Pierides, from Ovid's Metamorphosis (Book V: 294-678)
Karel van Mander the Elder · 16th–17th century
Parnassus
Raphael · 1600/25
Venus and the Nymphs Lamenting the Death of Adonis
Luca Cambiaso · 1560–65
Three putti before a large garland, the one in the middle rides an ostrich, from a series of tapestries made for Leo X
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · Master of the Die · Giovanni da Udine (Giovanni dei Ricamatori) · ca. 1530–40
Drunken Silenus Satyr and Nymphs
Niccolo Pussino · n.d.
Birth of Alexander
Niccolo Pussino · 1640s
Figures, Chariot and Dog
Niccolo Pussino · c. 1624
Bacchanal with Silenus
Andrea Mantegna · 1475/80
Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
Andrea Mantegna · c. 1470
Battle of the Sea Gods: Right Half of a Frieze
Andrea Mantegna · 1470/1500
Battle of the Sea Gods - right portion
Andrea Mantegna · c. 1485–88
Bacchanal with Silenus
Andrea Mantegna · 1481
Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
Andrea Mantegna · 1470–80
Bacchanal with Silenus
Andrea Mantegna · 1481
Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1742–45
Aurora and Cephalus
François Boucher · mid-18th century
Hercules and Iole
Annibale Carracci · after 1600
Charity, from Oeuvre de Canova
Antonio Canova · 1817
Susannah and the Elders
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · Anonymous, German, 19th century · 19th century
Overdoor with Allegorical Male Figure
Paolo Veronese · 17th century
Study for Venus Asking Jupiter for the Services of Mercury as Herald
Giulio Romano · n.d.
Bacchanales
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1763
Bacchanales: The Satyr's Family
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1763
Bacchanales: Nymph Astride a Satyr
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1763
Bacchanales: The Satyr's Dance
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1763
Allegory of Spring, or the Young Gardeners
Jean-Antoine Watteau · n.d.
Silenus
Jusepe de Ribera · 1628
Apollo Bathing, Attended by the Nymphs of Thetis
Charles Le Brun · 17th century
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