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)

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Circe and Ulysses

German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

Circe and Ulysses

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Europa

American painter Michael Bergt (*1956)

The Beauty and the Beast

Monday, May 2, 2011

Surrealist Leda

Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Leda Atomica (1949)

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Rococo Danae

French Rococo painter Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777)

Danae (1731)

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Beautiful Psyche

English Classicist painter Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)

Bath of Psyche

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Fantasy Art

Peruvian-American Fantasy painter Boris Vallejo (*1941).

Pandora opened the box

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Andromeda Rescued

English Romantic painter Willim Etty (1787-1849)

Andromeda (1840)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Witch Medea

British painter Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829—1904)

Medea (1868)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Iphigenia in Tauris

German classicist painter Anselm Feuerbach (1829—1880)

Iphigenia (1862)

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Beautiful Helen

French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

Helen of Troy

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Huntress Diana

French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)

Diana the Huntress (1867)

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Birth of Venus

French Academic Painter Adolphe William Bouguereau (1825-1905)

The Birth of Venus (1879)

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Judgement of Paris

Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)

The Judgement of Paris

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Circe and Ulysses

French Golden Age Illustrator Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

Circe offering the cup to Ulysses (1910)

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sappho

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

Sappho and Alcaeus (1881)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Medea in Love

French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898).

Jason and Medea (1865)

Friday, May 28, 2010

Goddess Diana

French Rococo painter Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766).

Marquise de Pompadour as Diana the Huntress

Friday, May 14, 2010

Pythia the Oracle

English painter John Collier (1850–1934)

Priestess of Delphi (1891)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Maybe Leda

English Classicist painter Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)

Odalisque (1862).
Despite Leighton called it "Odalisque" in this times a woman with a swan would always be interpreted as Leda.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Curious Psyche

English painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

Psyche Opening the Golden Box (1903)

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Birth of Venus

Austro-Hungarian painter Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)

Venus coming out of her shell.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Perseus and Andromeda

English painter Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898)

The Doom Fulfilled (1884-85)
Perseus is liberating Andromeda.