Behind the Scenes in Troy
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Mythography
The artistic representation of myth and legend. Can be funny or serious.
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Clytemnestra about to murder Agamemnon
This painting, which recalls the work of Fuseli as well as David, depicts the moment when Clytemnestra is about to murder her unsuspecting husband Agamemnon...
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Perseus and Andromeda
Charles Napier Kennedy, born in London in 1852, after studying at the Slade School was elected to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1883...
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Tower of Babel
Some of the many depictions of the Tower of Babel painted by Hendrick van Cleve III (b. Antwerp ca.1525) or by his personal circle of...
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Diana and Endymion
Diana, goddess of hunting, chastity and the moon, fell in love with the shepherd Endymion, whose youth and eternal sleep have made him an artistic...
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The elevation of Psyche to Olympus by Mercury
Belonging to an established family of artists, unlike his father Karl Josepf devoted to painting, Reinhold Begas turned his attention to sculpture. He soon became...
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Medusa defeats Perseus
Ramon Saroldi
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Prometheus Bound
In Prometheus bound, the famous tragedy attributed to Aeschylus, to assist the Titan, who complains of divine injustice and the gravity of his punishment, the...
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Rarely-Seen Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Are Now Free
We know Dante’s Divine Comedy—especially its famous first third, Inferno—as an extended theological treatise, epic love poem, and vicious satire of church hypocrisy and the...
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Apollo
Generally dated to around 1522, Dosso Dossi’s Apollo entered the Borghese collection, Rome, in 1659, bequeathed by Luigi Capponi as a tribute to the family...
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Check out the little Eros babies!
The gestures and actions expressed by Venus and Vulcan in this oil on canvas by Gaetano Gandolfi, painted between 1770 and 1775, led to a...
