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.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Rococo Danae

French Rococo painter François Boucher (1703–1770)

Danae

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Circe and the Swine

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

Circe (1904)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Sappho

French painter Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833)

Sappho on the Leucadian Cliff

Friday, January 22, 2010

Jason and Medea

French Golden Age Illustrator Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

Jason and Medea
Illustrations to Gods and Mortals in Love (1935)

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Resting Diana

German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)

Resting Diana

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Strange Medusa

Swiss-German Symbolist painter Carlos Schwabe (1877-1926)

Medusa 1895

Monday, January 4, 2010

Europa

Russian painter Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (1865-1911)

Europa (1910)