Crowded Olympus

Mythological scenes packed edge to edge — every god, hero and bystander showed up.

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Bacchanal with a Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna · Before 1475

Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · 1836

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer · 1504

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

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco · ca. 1570

Battle of the Nude Men

Antonio del Pollaiuolo · ca. 1470–90

Bacchanal

Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1635–36

Four Naked Women

Albrecht Dürer · 1497

The Sea Monster (Das Meerwunder)

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1498

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer · 1504

Saint Eustace

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1501

Battle of the Sea Gods (right portion of frieze)

Andrea Mantegna · before 1481

The Battle of the Sea Gods (left portion of frieze)

Andrea Mantegna · before 1481

Battle of the Sea-Gods (right portion of frieze)

Andrea Mantegna · ca. 1485–88

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Abduction of Proserpine

Albrecht Dürer · n.d.

The Golden Age

Joachim Wtewael · 1605

The Feast of Acheloüs

Peter Paul Rubens · Jan Brueghel the Elder · ca. 1615

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi · Ugo da Carpi · ca. 1520–27

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1645–50

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)

月岡芳年筆不動明王∙祐天上人図 · Fudō Myōō Threatening a Novice

Yoshitoshi · 1885

Samson Rending the Lion

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1497–98

The Whore of Babylon, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer · 1498

The Lottery

William Hogarth · [after 1724]

The Garden of Love (left portion)

Peter Paul Rubens · Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1633–35

The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)

Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1635–38

Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · Marcantonio Raimondi · ca. 1517–20

The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1767–70

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1745–47

Bacchanal with Silenus

Andrea Mantegna · before 1475

Two Satyrs in a Landscape

Titian · ca. 1505–10

Vertumnus and Pomona

François Boucher

The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict

Luca Signorelli · ca. 1493–96

A Phantasmagoria; — Scene – Conjuring-Up an Armed-Skeleton

James Gillray · James Gillray · January 5, 1803

Drunken Silenus holding a cup aloft into which a Satyr pours wine

Jusepe de Ribera · 1628

Birth of Saint John the Baptist

Giulio Romano · Diana Scultori · 1555–88

Omnia Vincit Amor

Agostino Carracci · 1599

Orpheus and Eurydice

Agostino Carracci · ca. 1590–95

Aeneas and his family fleeing Troy

Agostino Carracci · Federico Barocci · Donato Rasicotti · 1595

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 1)

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · Samuel Cousins · William Shakespeare · November , 1857

The Lovers

Parmigianino · 1527–30

Wilton Album, folio 10a: Priapus and Lotis

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli · Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · Bertoia (Jacopo Zanguidi) · ca. 1530–50