Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus at the Mirror 1613–1614 Oil on panel, 124 x 98 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Venus at the Mirror (1613-1614)
Tag: Mythology
Venus and Adonis (mid-1630s)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Cupid as Link Boy (1774)
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Mermaid (1896)
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Mermaid 1896 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 552.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Mercure et Argus (1761-1762)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Mercure et Argus (Mercury and Argus) c.1761–1762 Oil on canvas, 59 × 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Apollo e Dafne (1741)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne) 1741 Oil on canvas, 96 x 79 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo insegue Dafne c.1755–1760 National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD): The Metamorphoses (English)
Apollo insegue Dafne (c.1755-1760)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo insegue Dafne (Apollo Pursuing Daphne) c.1755–1760 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 87 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Throughout his career Tiepolo painted small pictures of mythological themes, which proved extremely popular. The subjects of these works…
Bacco e Arianna (c.1743-1745)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) c.1743–1745 Oil on canvas, 214 × 232.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Aeneas and the Sibyl (c.1670)
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Aeneas and the Sibyl c.1670 Etching on laid paper, 20.2 × 15.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus (c.1670)
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus c.1670 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 113.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Calypso, reclining on her bed, looks at us with the same charming smile she used on Odysseus. The…