#Mythological painters

[mote-historie]

Sandro Botticelli, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, detail, c. 1470–1475.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. 

[arinewman7]

Pandora

Charles-Amable Lenoir

1902

[mythical-redon]

By Charles Holloway (american, 1859-1941)

"A man and a woman in the forest"

[solcattus]

The three Graces, c. 1911

By Cesare Agostino Detti

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) L'Amour et Psyché, 1899

[random-brushstrokes]

Greta Gerell - Der Hals (1918)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Orpheus tries to hold on to Eurydice

.c. 1791

Artist : François Gérard (1770-1837)

[lionofchaeronea]

A scene from the Trojan War: Achilles and the Ethiopian king Memnon, son of Eos (Dawn), clash in single combat, flanked by chariots. This combat was recounted in the Aethiopis, a now-lost poem belonging to the Epic Cycle that continued the story of the Trojan War after the Iliad and Hector's death. As often, the relationship between literature and visual art is unclear: did the vase painter deliberately set out to illustrate the Aethiopis, or did poet and painter simply draw upon the same stock of traditional oral narrative?

Attic black-figure pyxis, in the manner of the C Painter; ca. 570 BCE. Now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany.

[pen-and-umbra]

The Deluge, Paul Merwart, c. 1900

[eirene]

Bacchante Triste Alice Pike Barney

[namedvesta]

Herbert James Draper, The Lament for Icarus (𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟪)

[arinewman7]

Ilmatar

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

1860

[mythical-redon]

By Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)

"The Yellow Cape"

[solcattus]

Orpheus und Eurydike, 1898

By Ludwig von Löfftz

[jareckiworld]

Maud Gérard (1915-2013) — Eve [oil on canvas, 1937]

[random-brushstrokes]

Ella M. Bedford - The springs of Lethe (1896)