Flashcards: Paintings depicting Greek myths

The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is one of the most famous paintings by 19th-century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Diana and Actaeon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, finished in 1556–1559, and is considered amongst Titian's greatest works.

The Venus of Urbino is a 1538 oil painting by the Italian master Titian.

Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (also called An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus) is an allegorical painting by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino.

Danaë is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt, created in 1907.

The Death of Procris, A Satyr mourning over a Nymph or simply A Mythological Subject are names given to an unsigned, undated panel painting in the National Gallery in London, United Kingdom, securely attributed to Piero di Cosimo (who never signed his works).

Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

Venus Anadyomene (Greek -Venus rising from the sea), is a c.

The Calumny of Apelles is a tempera painting by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.

The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco completed about 1514 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome.

The Three Graces is an oil painting by Italian painter Raphael, housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.

The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a 1618 painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

Leda Atomica is a painting by Salvador Dalí, made in 1949.

Pygmalion and Galatea (French: Pygmalion et Galatée) is an 1890 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Flora is an oil painting by Italian late Renaissance painter Titian, dated to around 1515 and now held at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

The Rokeby Venus (/ˈroʊkbi/; also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.

The Feast of the Gods (Italian: Il festino degli dei) is an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, with substantial additions to the landscape in stages by Dosso Dossi and Titian, who added all the landscape to the left and centre.

The first version is also known as Murtula, by the name of the poet who wrote about it, Gaspare Murtola (d. 1624): "Flee, for if your eyes are petrified in amazement, she will turn you to stone.

The Young Sick Bacchus (Italian: Bacchino Malato), also known as the Sick Bacchus or the Self-Portrait as Bacchus, is an early self-portrait by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dated between 1593 and 1594.

Diana and Callisto is a painting completed between 1556 and 1559 by the Venetian artist Titian.

Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈveːra]), also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.

Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523) is an oil painting by Titian.

The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889).

Bacchus (c. 1595) is a painting by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610).

Pallas and the Centaur is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c.

The Battle of the Amazons or Amazonomachia is an oil on wood painting produced around 1615.

The Union of Earth and Water is a Baroque painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing Cybele as the personification of earth holding the horn of plenty and Neptune as the personification of water in the center.

The Origin of the Milky Way is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance master Jacopo Tintoretto, in the National Gallery, London, formerly in the Orleans Collection.

Mnemosyne, also titled Lamp of Memory and Ricordanza, is an oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti begun in 1875 or early 1876 and completed in 1881.

The Lament for Icarus is a painting by Herbert James Draper, showing dead Icarus, surrounded by lamenting nymphs.

(For other uses, see Proserpina (disambiguation).) Proserpine (also Proserpina) is an oil painting on canvas by English artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painted in 1874 and currently housed at Tate Britain.

The Death of Actaeon is a late work by Italian Renaissance master Titian, painted in 1559 to 1575 as an oil on canvas and now housed in the National Gallery of London, United Kingdom.

The Sleeping Venus, also known as the Dresden Venus, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione.

Venus and Adonis is a subject painted by the Italian late Renaissance artist Titian a number of times.

Perseus Freeing Andromeda is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, executed in 1607.

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice is a huge 200 × 124 cm (approx 6.5 × 4 feet) oil-on-canvas by artist in the classical style Nicolas Poussin, painted between 1650 and 1653.

Le Travail interrompu (English: Work Interrupted) is a painting painted by nineteenth century French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1891.

Hercules separating the mounts Calpe And Abyla is a work by Francisco de Zurbarán, created in 1634.

The Cyclops is a painting by Odilon Redon depicting a myth starring an "unlucky naiad Galatea, loved by Polyphemus, the most famous Cyclops.

The Triumph of Bacchus (Greek title is Ο Θρίαμβος του Βάκχου) is a 1628 painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn’s The Abduction of Europa (1632) is one of his rare mythological subject paintings.

Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton.

Combat of Love and Chastity is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Pietro Perugino, currently housed in the Musée du Louvre, in Paris, France.

Rêve de printemps (en. Dream of Spring) is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau in the year 1901.

The Rape of Europa is a painting by the Italian artist Titian, painted ca.

Perseus and Andromeda is an oil painting by Lord Frederic Leighton.

Ulysses and the Sirens is a 1909 oil painting by Herbert James Draper measuring 69.

Narcissus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, painted circa 1597–1599.

The Parnassus is a fresco painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael in the Raphael Rooms ("Stanze di Raffaello"), in the Palace of the Vatican in Rome, painted at the commission of Pope Julius II.

Sappho and Phaon is an 1809 neoclassical painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David of Cupid, Sappho and her lover Phaon.

Pygmalion and the Image is the second series of four oil paintings in the Pygmalion and Galatea series by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which was completed between 1875 and 1878.

El Juicio de Paris (The Judgment of Paris in English) is an oil-on-canvas painting of the Greek myth, the Judgement of Paris.

(Not to be confused with Ulysses and the Sirens.) The Sirens and Ulysses is a large oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1837.

The Cave of the Storm Nymphs is a painting by British artist Edward Poynter, depicting three nude sirens or nymphs from Greek mythology that lure sailors to their deaths.

A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin in the Wallace Collection in London.

Nymphs and Satyr (French: Nymphes et un satyre) is a painting, oil on canvas, created by artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1873.

The Bacchanal of the Andrians is an oil painting by Titian.

The Fall of Phaeton is a painting by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, featuring the ancient Greek myth of Phaeton (Phaethon), a recurring theme in visual arts.

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle (c. 1531-1532) is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio.

Allegory of Virtue and Vice or The Choice Between Virtue and Vice or The Choice of Hercules is a painting by Paolo Veronese, created circa 1565 in Venice, Italy and now located in the Frick Collection.

The Judgement of Paris refers to any of the several paintings of the Judgement of Paris produced by Peter Paul Rubens, though he did not match the 22 depictions of the subject attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder.

The Origin of the Milky Way, or The Birth of the Milky Way, is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, featuring the Greco-Roman myth of the origin of the Milky Way.

Perseus and Andromeda is the title of several paintings by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens featuring the ancient Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda after the former's defeat of the Gorgon.

Romulus and Remus is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse that was created in 1891.

Helen of Troy is an 1898 painting by Evelyn De Morgan depicting Helen of Troy; it was commissioned by William Imrie of Liverpool.

Medea is an oil painting on canvas by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Frederick Sandys which was created in 1868.

The Myth of Prometheus is a series of five panels painted by Piero di Cosimo.

The Night of Enitharmon's Joy, often referred as The Triple Hecate or simply Hecate, is a 1795 work of art by the English artist and poet William Blake which depicts Enitharmon, a female character in his mythology, or Hecate, a chthonic Greco-Roman goddess of magic and the underworld.

The Punishment of Tythus is a mythological painting by Titian dating to 1549 and now in the Museo del Prado.

The Rape of Europa is a painting commissioned by Władysław IV Vasa from the Italian artist Guido Reni, completed between 1637 and 1639 and showing the abduction of Europa by Zeus in the form of a bull.

The Sorceress is a painting by John William Waterhouse completed between 1911 and 1915.

Andromeda Chained to the Rocks was painted by Rembrandt in approximately 1630, and is now in the Mauritshuis, in The Hague.

Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan is an oil painting of 1623 by Dirck van Baburen of the Utrecht School, and an example of Baroque chiaroscuro.

Circe Invidiosa is a painting by John William Waterhouse completed in 1892.

Echo and Narcissus is a painting dating from 1903 by John William Waterhouse.

Hercules fighting Nemean lion is a work by Francisco de Zurbarán created in 1634.

The Fall of the Titans is an oil painting of the Titanomachy made by the Dutch painter Cornelis van Haarlem in 1588–1590.

Jason and Medea is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style created by John William Waterhouse in 1907.