Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Judgement of Paris

The Judgement of Paris by the German painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779).

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Fashionable Diana

Madame Bouret as Diana by the French Rococo painter Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766).

Monday, April 29, 2013

Circe the Witch

Circe by the British painter John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Pin Up Medusa

Perseus and Medusa by the Peruvian-American Fantasy painter Boris Vallejo (*1941).

Monday, February 4, 2013

The Three Graces

The Three Graces (1763) by the French painter Carle or Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765).




Friday, January 25, 2013

Abandoned Nymph

Calypso (1869) by the German French painter Henri Lehmann (1814-1882).




Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Chained Victim

Andromeda by the French Romantic painter Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1798-1863) .




Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Gods in Love

Venus and Adonis by the Flemish Mannerist painter Bartholomäus Spranger (1546-1611).




Friday, December 28, 2012

The Huntress

Diana with her dog (c 1904) by the German painter Ferdinand Wagner (1847-1927).




Thursday, December 20, 2012

Curious Pandora

Pandora (1902) by the English painter Henry Maynell Rheam (1859-1920).




Monday, December 10, 2012

Reflective Sappho

In the Days of Sappho by the English Neoclassical painter John William Godward (1861 –1922).



Saturday, December 1, 2012

Treacherous Circe

Circe Pouring Poison into a Vase and Awaiting the Arrival of Ulysses by the English painter Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898).




Friday, November 23, 2012

Venus Anadyomène

Venus Anadyomène (1848) by the French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).




Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Judgement of Paris

The Judgement of Paris (1939) by the Austrian Nazi painter Ivo Saliger (1894-1987).




Sunday, November 4, 2012

Pythia the Oracle

Pythia (1917) by the Polish Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929).



Thursday, October 25, 2012

Diana Bathing

Diana standing by a waterfall by the English Romantic painter Willim Etty (1787-1849)




Monday, October 15, 2012

Mysterious Pandora

Pandora (1873) by the French Academic painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).




Saturday, October 6, 2012

Danae

Danae (1531) by the Italian Renaissance painter Antonio Allegri called Correggio (1489-1534).




Thursday, September 27, 2012

Seductive Venus

Venus binding her hair by the English painter John William Godward (1861 –1922).




Monday, September 17, 2012

Lonesome Ariadne

Ariadne by the English painter Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919).




Saturday, September 8, 2012

Leda and Swan

Leda and the swan by the Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).



Thursday, August 30, 2012

Fantasy Circe

Circe (1991) by the Peruvian-American Fantasy painter Boris Vallejo (*1941).




Thursday, April 19, 2012

Prying Pandora

Pandora (1896) by the British Painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917).

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Born from the Sea

The Birth of Venus (1862) by the French painter Eugène-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval (1808-1885).

Monday, March 26, 2012

Sleeping Beauty

Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos (1808-1812) by the American painter John Vanderlyn (1775–1852).

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Like Statues

The Three Graces (1793-1794) by the French Neoclassical painter Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829).

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Nude Poetress

Sappho goes to bed (1867) by the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre (1806-1874).

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Seducing Nymph

Ulysses and Circe (c.1585) by the Flemish Mannerist painter Bartholomäus Spranger (1546-1611).

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Lascivious Huntress

Diana by the Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640).

Monday, February 6, 2012

Godly Swan

Leda (1865-1875) by the French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Kind of Andromeda

Roger Freeing Angelica (1819) by the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Pin-Up Helen

Helen of Troy (1966) by the American artist Ren Wicks (1911-1998).

Saturday, January 7, 2012

A Woman Challenging Men

Medea, Theseus and Aegeus (1910) by the Scottish artist William Russell Flint (1880 - 1969).

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Naïve Pandora

French Academic painter Paul Césaire Gariot (1811-1880)

Pandora’s Box (1877)

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Mysterious Sappho

French Academic painter Charles-August Mengin (1853-1933)

Sappho (1877)

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Renaisance Nude

Italian Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82-1532)

Venus

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Nude on the Beach

Swedish-American painter Adolf-Ulrik Wertmuller (1751-1811)

Ariadne on Naxos

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Gorgeous Women

Scottish watercolor artist William Russell Flint (1880-1969)

The Judgement of Paris

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Childish Witch

Belgian Naturalist painter Charles Hermans (1839-1924)

Circe

Sunday, October 16, 2011

A Suffering Mother

French Academic painter Victor Mottez (1809-1897).

Medea

Monday, October 3, 2011

Sweetie Psyche

French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)

Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753-54)

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

What was in the Eggs

Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

Leda and the Swan, copy by Cesare Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo (1515-1520)

Monday, September 5, 2011

The Golden Shower

Flemish Renaissance painter Jan Gossaert (c.1478-1532)

Danae (1527)

Monday, August 22, 2011

Tormented Head

German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter Franz von Stuck (1863-1928).

Medusa

Monday, August 15, 2011

Neoclassical Andromeda

French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Perseus and Andromeda (c.1819)

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Pandora with Box

Dutch-English painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)

Pandora

Monday, July 4, 2011

Aphrodite

English Victorian painter Herbert James Draper (1863-1920).

The Pearls of Aphrodite

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Diana Surprised

Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640)

Diana and Aktaion (1606)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Venus

German Symbolist painter Theodor Baierl (1881–1932)

Toilette of Venus (1920)

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Three Graces

German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)

The Three Graces (c.1530)