mythology

The Sorrow of Telemachus

Angelica Kauffmann · 1783

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

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

Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

Joshua Reynolds · 1763–65

Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1742–45

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra

Gustave Moreau · 1875–76

In the Sea

Arnold Böcklin · 1883

The Return of Persephone

Frederic Leighton · ca. 1890–91

The Battle between the Gods and the Giants

Joachim Wtewael · c. 1608

The Creation of Adam

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · c. 1645/50

Sita

Odilon Redon · c. 1893

Cupid's Hunting Fields

Edward Burne-Jones · 1885

Daedalus and Icarus

Giulio Romano · early 1530s

Daedalus and Icarus

Giulio Romano · n.d.

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Luca Giordano · c. 1675

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Agostino Carracci · c. 1590

The Death of Procris

Benjamin West · 1770, retouched 1803

The Abduction of Europa

David Teniers the Younger · 1654–56

The Abduction of Europa

David Teniers the Younger · 1654–56

Apollo and Marsyas

Hans Thoma · 1888

The Judgement of Paris

Stradanus · c. 1575

The Fates Gathering in the Stars

Elihu Vedder · 1887

Birth of Venus (Furnishing Fabric)

Charles-Joseph Natoire · 1800/05

Marriage of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, The Dowry

Antoine Caron · c. 1562

Venus and Cupid

Alessandro Turchi · c. 1630

Mercury Rescues the Disguised Io after Beheading Argus

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

Diana and Endymion

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

Jove Casts His Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

Apollo Granting Phaeton Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

Saint George and the Dragon

Bernat Martorell · 1434–35

Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual

Teotihuacan · 500–600 CE

Nymphs and Satyrs Drinking

Johann Georg Platzer · c. 1740

Bacchic Revels

Johann Georg Platzer · c. 1740

The Goatherd Lamon Handing the Infant Daphnis to His Wife Myrtele

Ambroise Dubois · after 1606

Elaine

Toby Edward Rosenthal · 1874

The Dream of Paris

Monogrammist PG · 1536

Venus and Mars with Cupid and the Three Graces in a Landscape

Domenico Tintoretto · 1585–95

Aeneas Rescuing Anchises from Burning Troy

Hendrick van Steenwijck, the Younger · c. 1610

The Death of Orpheus

Henri Leopold Lévy · c. 1870

Birth of Bacchus

Károly Markó, Sr. · 1826 (?)