Mythological Paintings

Dramatic depictions of mythological scenes involving gods, heroes, and allegorical figures in dynamic compositions with rich colors.

Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640/Flemish) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

François Boucher, Allegory of Music, 1764 Allegory of Music

'Feast of the Gods'. Germany, Late 16th century. Dimensions: 35x46 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Johann Rottenhammer.

Three children playing with a bird's nest, Isaac Walraven (Rejected Attribution), 1718 painting In a landscape with a classic gate, a girl with a gold -colored robe and flowers in her hair points a boy with purple wrap bends over her, on a bird's nest with two birds. Behind them stands in the shade a Schalk laughing boy who points to them. Next to the children is a basket with flowers. A braided flower wreath hangs around a bust, possibly from Priapus. To the left of the middle is a classic decorative vase on a pedestal. A dark purple drapery hanging in a tree closes the show on the left. Amsterdam copper (metal). oil paint (paint) child playing with animals. garden vase

Return from Market; 1767 Oil on canvas Francois Boucher French; 1703-1770

VERONESE, Paolo Caliari, called Paolo (1528-1588). Venus and Adonis. 1580. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Garden of Eden by Jan Brueghel the Younger, Oil on wood, 1601-1678, Private Collection, 36, 5x47, 5

Allegory Of The Elements Jan Bruegel the Elder (1568-1625 Flemish)

Antwerp, St Jacob's Church (Dutch: Sint-Jacobskerk), Peter Paul Rubens' burial chapel, Rubens Chapel, altar with painting of the Madonna surrounded by saints (ca. 1638) by Rubens

LA DEGOLLACION - 1808-14 - 33X47 CMS. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Achilles Receiving the Ambassadors of Agamemnon, Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)

The Goddess Fortuna Bestowing her Gifts, Simon Flocquet (attributed to), c. 1645 painting The naked personification of Fortuna standing on a pedestal scatters money and symbols of honor and power. A black man is not lucky and falls off the pedestal. The spectators on the left benefit from her gifts, the people on the right must lack them. In the foreground a dog that threatens a swan. At the pedestal a lute and another musical instrument. Northern Netherlands panel. oil paint (paint) Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Aurea fortune', 'Good luck', 'peaceful luck overo Clemente', 'fate' (Ripa). Adversity, misfortune, bad luck; 'Unhappy luck', 'injury' (Ripa). Africans

Judgment of Paris 1800-1900 () Anonymous, Italian, 19th century Italian. Judgment of Paris 341844

Painting titled 'Unfaithfulness' by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice

Francesco Solimena / 'Saint John the Baptist', ca. 1730, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 83 cm x 70 cm, P00351. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Landscape with Mercury and Argus. Unknown maker, Flemish, 16th century

The Expulsion from Paradise. Dating: after 1646. Measurements: support: h 30 cm × w 38 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: CORNELIS VAN POELENBURCH.

Allegory of Volterra. Date/Period: 1563 - 1565. Oil painting on wood. Height: 250 mm (9.84 in); Width: 250 mm (9.84 in). Author: Giorgio Vasari.

Jupiter and Semele, by Luca Ferrari (1605-1654).

Corinaldo (Italia, Marche - provincia di Ancona), Pinacoteca Claudio Ridolfi. Autore ignoto, Flagellazione, secolo XVII, olio su tela, proveniente da Sant'Agostino

the Celebration of Bacchus. (Jan brueghel D. J.; 1601 brueghel-1678 Antwerp)

Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica - 1839 - 47x39 cm - oil on canvas - French Neoclassicism. Author: JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES. Location: NATIONAL GALLERY. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Diana's Bath Louis Devedeux (1820-1874 French)

Rinaldo's Conquest of the Enchanted Forest; Francesco Maffei (Italian (Venetian), about 1605 - 1660); about 1650 - 1655; Oil on copper; 29.8 × 34 cm (11 3,4 × 13 3,8 in.)

The furnace of Volcano by Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574)/ Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence/ 1563-1565/ Italy, Florentine School/ Oil on wood/ Mannerism/ 38x28/ Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Francisco de Zurbarán / 'Hercules Fighting Against Anteus', 1634, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 136 cm x 153 cm, P01246. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Holy family by Jacob Jordaens, oil on canvas, 1640, 1593-1678, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 135x201

Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Dutch Painter. 'The Battle of the Amazons' Oil on wood panel

Lion hunt by Charles de La Fosse, Oil on canvas,circa 1679, 1636-1716, Musee de l'Histoire de France, 250x500

The Battle of the Amazons, a painting by the German painter Anselm Feuerbach, Saga of the Amazons in the Trojan War, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche, detail by Romano, Giulio (1499-1546) / Palazzo del Te, Mantua / 1526-1528 / Italy, School of Mantua / Fresco / Mythology, Allegory and Literature /Mannerism

Nymphs and satyrs Attributed to Jacques Philippe Caresme (1737-1796). "Nymphs and satyres". Drawing, around 1750. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris.

Marsyas, abused by the Muses, In Greco-Roman myth a satyr, a semi-divine being, son of Hyagnis, companion of Cybele, Painting by Jacob Jordaens, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a historical work of art

Tumbling Putti with Flowers, anonymous, c. 1650 painting A group of tumbling putti with flowers. Part of a group of four ceiling paintings with putti (SK-A-4707/4710). Northern Netherlands canvas. oil paint (paint)

Allegory of the Creation

Illustration for William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I. From an 18th century engraving by John Simon after a work by Henry Fuseli.

Byss / Air

Mariano Salvador Maella / 'Autumn', 1805-1806, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 144 cm x 74 cm, P02499. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Diana and her Nymphs, detail of Olympians, 1690-1700, by Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665-1747), fresco, Olympus room, Pepoli Campogrande Palace, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. Italy, 17th-18th centuries.

Paris and Helen by Jacques Louis David, (1748-1825), France, Paris, Musee du Louvre

Frans II Francken / 'Sacrifice of Isaac', Flemish School, Oil on copper, 68 cm x 86 cm, P02742. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. Author: FRANS FRANCKEN THE YOUNGER.

The Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth, c. 1627. Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665). Oil on canvas; framed: 159.5 x 124 x 14.5 cm (62 13/16 x 48 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.); unframed: 134 x 99 cm (52 3/4 x 39 in.).

Allegory of the three ages of man, 1512-1515, by Titian (ca 1490-1576), oil on canvas, 106x182 cm.

Italy - Veneto Region - Venice - Cain and Abel by Tiziano

Raphael /Joseph tells his dream /c.1515

The Resurrection. Bartholomeus Breenbergh; Dutch, 1598-1657. Date: 1630-1640. Dimensions: 14 x 8 1/8 in. (35.5 x 20.7 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: Holland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The sacrifice of Isaac, 1726-1739, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), fresco. Patriarchal Palace, Guest Hall, Udine.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Flemish Baroque painter. Bacchus, 1638-40. Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Bath of nymphs. Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst (1712-1774), painter

La conversion de Saint Paul by Luca Giordano (1690), Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy.

David with the Head of Goliath. Daniele Crespi (1590-1630). Oil on panel, 60.7 x 40.6cm.

UK, England, London, Landscape with Dido and Aeneas

Hercules steels the apples from the Hesperides. Date/Period: 1555 - 1556. Oil painting on wood. Height: 85 mm (3.34 in); Width: 150 mm (5.90 in). Author: Marco Marchetti from Faenza.

Painting depicting Prometheus being chained by Vulcan as described in Greek Mythology. Painted by Dirck van Baburen (1595-1624). Dated 17th Century

French 18th Century, The Rape of the Sabine Women, c 1770 The Rape of the Sabine Women

Landscape with Absalom pierced by Joab's lance

Triumph of the Marine Venus. Date/Period: Ca. 1713. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,600 mm (62.99 in); Width: 2,108 mm (82.99 in). Author: SEBASTIANO RICCI.

Luca Giordano / 'Sansón destruyendo a los filisteos', 1695-1696, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 62 cm x 162 cm, P05123. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Eve the first Pandora, 1550, by Jean Cousin the Elder (1490-1560).

Hieronim; unknown painter of the oski; XVII century (1601-00-00-1700-00-00);Hieronim (Saint-331/347-419 Cars 420), Kierbesziów, Eugenia (1855-1946), Kierbeziów, Eugenia (1855-1946)-collection, gift (provenance), Italian painting

Education of Achilles in art of hunting by centaur Chiron, from Iliad by Homer 1782

Venus and cupids by Francois Boucher, oil on canvas, after 1743, 1703-1770, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 103x87

Denys Calvaert, Christ at the Column, c. 1578-80, oil on panel.

Saint Jerome, oil on canvas, 17th century, Church of San Bartolome, Atienza, Guadalajara Province, Spain, Europe

Return of prodigal son by unknown painter, oil on wood, circa 1550, active 1530-1560, Austria, Vienne, Art History Museum, 128, 5x214

Titian, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, Italian, c. 1490-1576, c. 1547, oil on canvas

'Merchants Pull Joseph out of the Well'. Holland, 1636. Dimensions: 52,5x49 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: PIETER DE BLOOT.

Juan Antonio Ribera y Fernández / 'Allegory of the Summer', 1819, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 87 cm x 54 cm, P06492. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Titania, Bottom and the Fairies, Henry Fuseli, 1793-1794,

A Reclining Nymph Playing the Flute with Putti, Perhaps the Muse Euterpe Francois Boucher (1703-1770 French) Oil on canvas

DOS LUCHADORES (¿HERCULES Y ANTEO) - SIGLO XVII - OLEO/LIENZO - 156x128 cm - BARROCO ITALIANO - NP 142. Author: FRACANZANO CESARE. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

José de Ribera / 'The Martyrdom of Saint Philip', 1639, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 234 cm x 234 cm, P01101. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Snyders, Frans (1579-1657). The Cook in the Pantry. 1620s. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Location: MUSEO HOSPITAL DE SANTA CRUZ. Toledo. SPAIN.

The Assumption of the Virgin. Dated: c. 1630/1632. Dimensions: overall: 134.4 x 98.1 cm (52 15/16 x 38 5/8 in.) framed: 171.8 x 135.3 x 13.7 cm (67 5/8 x 53 1/4 x 5 3/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: NICOLAS POUSSIN.

'St John the Baptist in the Desert'. Germany, Circa 1774. Dimensions: 208x153 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS.

Francisco de Zurbarán / 'Hercules Fights with the Erymanthischen Boar', 1634, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 132 cm x 153 cm, P01244. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

The muses of Tragedy and Comedy, by Friedrich Heinrich Fuger (1751-1818).

Mercury, Argus and Io. Dating: 1635 - 1645. Measurements: h 31 cm × w 47.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Govert Flinck.

Carthusians in a Landscapby Pier Francesco Mola, oil sketch, 1612-1666

St Sebastian, by Reni Guido, 1639 - 1640, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy: Emilia Romagna: Bologna: National Gallery of Art. Detail. St Sebastian ropes half naked body young boy anatomy white sky blue gray clouds

The Feast of Acheloüs ca. 1615 Peter Paul Rubens Flemish Rubens and his friend Jan Brueghel collaborated on a number of mythological and religious pictures about 1610-20. In this panel, Rubens designed and painted the figure groups and Brueghel painted everything else. The river god Acheloüs explains to the Greek hero Theseus that his former lover Perimele was transformed into a distant island by Neptune so that she could remain forever within the rivers embrace. The artists combined Latin learning, athletic nudes (some based on classical sculpture), the wonders of nature, and the wonders of technique into an encyclopedic display meant for a sophisticated collector.. The Feast of Acheloüs 437525

Bathers by Naumov, Pavel Semyonovich (1884-1942)/ State Art Museum, Nizhny Novgorod/ 1910s/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Symbolism/ 50,8x53,2/ Genre

The rising from Venus Jacques Charlier. "The lift of Venus". Gouache on vellum. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.

Cecco del Caravaggio (1588-1620). Italian painter. The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. National Museum. Warsaw. Poland.

Painting on ceiling of stairway in Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe

Heavenly Love and Earthly Love, Sacred Love and Profane Love, Giovanni Baglione, 1602, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany, Europe

'Allegory of Love, Cupid and Psyche', 1798-1805, Oil on canvas, 220,5 x 155,5 cm. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA (1746-1828). Location: FUNDACION CAMBO. Barcelona. SPAIN. CUPID. PSYCHE (MYTHOLOGY). AMOR MITOLOGIA. PSIQUIS.

Pietro Facchetti (Copy de Francesco Salviati) / 'Separación de la Luz y las Tinieblas', After 1554, Italian School, Canvas, 174 cm x 130 cm, P00515. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Circe, by Antonio Maria Vassallo (ca 1620-ca 1664).

Venus and Mercury Instructing Cupid. François Boucher (France, Paris, 1703-1770). France, 1738. Paintings. Oil on canvas

Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market. Frans Snyders; Flemish, 1579-1657. Date: 1614. Dimensions: 212 × 308 cm (83 1/2 × 121 1/4 in. ). Oil on canvas. Origin: Flanders. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

UTRECHT, Adriaen van (1599-1672). A Pantry. 1642. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante / 'The explorers sent by Moses return from Canaan with fruit'. 1668. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Saint Jerome holding human skull by Cesare da Sesto , tempera on panel, 1477-1523, Russia, Moscow , State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 82x62

Cabinet with the story of the Prodigal Son. Dated 17th Century

Pedro Pablo Rubens (and workshop) / 'Hércules matando al dragón del jardín de las Hespérides', 1635-1640, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 64,3 cm x 103,5 cm, P01711. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. Author: PEDRO PABLO RUBENS (Y TALLER).

Kronos (Chronos) one of the Greek Titans, father of Zeus. Saturn in Roman mythology. Giacinto Brandi (1623-1691).Oil on Canvas. Private Collection

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