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.

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)

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)