Category Archives: Mythology

Harmonillus transformed into a lime tree

Print made by Cornelis Bloemaert After Andrea Sacchi A plate from G.B.Ferrari, ‘Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu’, Rome 1646 The British Museum

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Danaë

1527 GOSSAERT, Jan (Mabuse) (b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg) Oil tempera on wood, 113,5 x 95 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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Persephone Changes Ascalaphus into an Owl

1670 Melchior Küsel Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum

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Nereid

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Jupiter and Callisto

1655 EVERDINGEN, Caesar van (b. 1617, Alkmaar, d. 1678, Haarlem) Oil on canvas, 165 x 193 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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Bacchus with Nymphs and Cupid

c. 1660 EVERDINGEN, Caesar van (b. 1617, Alkmaar, d. 1678, Haarlem) Oil on canvas, 147 x 161 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

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Psyche at the Throne of Venus

 by Edward Matthew Hale Date painted: 1883 Oil on canvas, 199 x 89 cm Collection: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum  

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In the Venusberg

by John Collier Date painted: 1901 Oil on canvas, 243 x 168 cm Collection: Atkinson Art Gallery Collection

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Cupid and Psyche

  1639-40 DYCK, Sir Anthony van (b. 1599, Antwerpen, d. 1641, London)  Oil on canvas, 199,4 x 191,8 cm Royal Collection, Windsor

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Bacchus and Ariadne

 about 1640 Eustache Le Sueur, French, 1616–1655 Museum of Fine Arts Boston  

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