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Greek Mythology Paintings

exploring famous greek gods paintings

The poetry of Ovid exerted a great effect on the psyche of poets and painters with the rediscovery of ancient antiquity in Greek Renaissance art.  Greek mythology paintings were not only particularly popular throughout the Renaissance but they also reappeared during the Classical periods of the 18th and 19th centuries.

#1

Pallas and the Centaur  (1482) Sandro Botticelli

#2

The Birth of Venus  (1486) Sandro Botticelli

#3

The Triumph of Galatea (1514) Raphael

#4

Narcissus  (1599) Caravaggio

#5

Leda and the Swan  (1600) Peter Paul Rubens

#6

The Fall of Phaeton  (1605) Peter Paul Rubens

#7

Prometheus Bound  (1612) Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders

#8

Sleeping Venus  (c. 1630) Artemisia Gentileschi

#9

Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso  (1782) Angelica Kauffman

#10

Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864) Gustave Moreau

#11

Pygmalion and Galatea (1890) Jean-Léon Gérôme

#12

The Lament for Icarus  (1898) Herbert James Draper

#13

Perseus and Andromeda (1891) Frederic Leighton

#14

 Ulysses and the Sirens (1891) John William Waterhouse