Monday, December 28, 2009

Leda

Paolo Veronese Italian Renaissance painter (1528-1588)

Leda

Monday, December 21, 2009

Ulysses and Calypso

Swiss Symbolist Painter Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)

Ulysses and Calypso (1883)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Fantasy Andromeda

Fantasy painter Boris Vallejo

Andromeda (1988)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Pandora

French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 –1911)

Pandora (1869)

Thursday, December 3, 2009

A Rising the Star

French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

Venus Rising the Star

Saturday, November 28, 2009

The Pythia

English Neo-Classicist painter John William Godward (1861 –1922)

The Delphic Oracle (1899)

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Diana hunting

Diana hunting School of Fontainebleau (1550-60).

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Danae

Austrian Art Nouveau Painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Danae (1907-1908)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Judgement of Paris

French painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)

The Judgement of Paris (1862-64)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Leda and the Swan

Italian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594)

Leda and the Swan

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Pulp Medusa

Medusa on a Pulp Magazine from 1951

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Roaring Twenties Circe

German painter George Grosz (1893-1959)

Circe

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Perseus and Andromeda

German painter Lovis von Corinth (1858-1925)

Perseus and Andromeda (1900)

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Helen of Troy

English painter Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)

Helen of Troy (1898)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

French painter François Boucher (1703–1770)

The Birth of Venus (1740)

Friday, October 2, 2009

Pandora with the Box

French symbolist painter Gustave-Adolphe Mossa (1883-1971)

Pandora (1907)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Europa

American painter Michael Bergt (*1956)

Europa (2003)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Ulysses and Circe

Swiss painter Maria Anna Angelica Catharina Kauffmann (1741-1807)

Ulysses and Circe (1786)

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Leda with the Swan

French painter François-Edouard Picot (1786-1868)

Leda with the Swan (1832)

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Resting Diana

Austrian academic painter Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)

Resting Diana (c. 1853)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Athena, Hera and Aphrodite

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

The three goddesses: Athena, Hera and Aphrodite (c. 1923)

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Perseus and Andromeda

French painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

Perseus and Andromeda (1870)

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Medea

German painter Anselm Feuerbach (1829—1880)

Medea (1870)

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Helen of Troy

English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

Helen of Troy (1863)

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Medusa

Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610)

Medusa (1597)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Danae

Italian painter Tiziano Vecelli (or Titian) (c. 1488-1576)

Danae (1545-46)

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Pandora's Box

English painter Arthur Rackham (1867 –1939)

Pandora’s box

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Circe and her Swine

English painter Briton Rivière (1840-1920)

Circe and her Swine (1892)

Saturday, August 8, 2009

The Rock of Doom (1884-85)

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

The Rock of Doom (1884-85) / Perseus and Andromeda

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Leda and the Swan

French painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)

Leda and the Swan (1880-82)

Friday, July 31, 2009

Diana Surprised

French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 –1911)

Diana Surprised (1879)

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Medusa

Polish painter Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929)

Medusa (1900)

Friday, July 24, 2009

The Three Graces / Judgement of Paris

English painter George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)

The Three Graces or The Judgement of Paris

Monday, July 20, 2009

Perseus and Andromeda

German painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779)

Perseus and Andromeda (1770-76)

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus

English painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus (1891)

Monday, July 13, 2009

Leda and the Swan

French painter François Boucher (1703–1770)

Leda and the Swan (1741)

Friday, July 10, 2009

Danae

Italian painter Paolo de Matteis (1662-1728)

Danae (c. 1705)

Monday, July 6, 2009

Lady Hamilton as Circe

English painter George Romney (1734-1802)

Lady Hamilton as Circe (1782)

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Cassandra

English painter Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)

Cassandra (1898)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Medusa

French painter Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865-1953)

Medusa (1897)

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Andromeda and the Nereids

French painter Théodore Chassériau (1819- 1856)

Andromeda and the Nereids (1840)

Monday, June 22, 2009

Danae

Italian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) (1518-1594)

Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Three Graces

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

The Three Graces (1890-96)

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Circe the Sorceress

British painter John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)

Circe the Sorceress (1911)

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Medea

Czech painter Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860–1939)

Medea (1898)

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Andromeda

Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)

Andromeda (ca. 1630)

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Danae

French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824)

Mademoiselle Lange as Danae (1799)

Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Judgement of Paris

German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)

The Judgement of Paris (ca. 1530)

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Diana hunting

British painter John Byam Shaw (1872-1919)

Diana hunting (1901)

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Circe

British painter Wright Barker (1864-1941)

Circe

Here Circe is more the queen of her idyllic paradise, where she lived in peace with her wild animals. She’s half naked and has a lyre in one hand. So she’s probably receiving Odysseus, who came to rescue his men.