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Paintings of Greek deities (2 C) E. ... Pages in category "Paintings of Greek myths" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total.
From the early years of the Renaissance, artists portrayed subjects from Greek and Roman mythology alongside more conventional Christian themes. Among the best-known subjects of Italian artists are Botticelli 's Birth of Venus and Pallas and the Centaur , the Ledas of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo , and Raphael 's Galatea . [ 2 ]
In Greek mythology, the beautiful Nereid Galatea had fallen in love with the peasant shepherd Acis. Her consort, one-eyed giant Polyphemus , after chancing upon the two lovers together, lobbed an enormous pillar and killed Acis – Sebastiano del Piombo produced a fresco of Polyphemus next to Raphael's work.
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.
The following list of art deities is arranged by continent with names of mythological figures and deities associated with the arts. Art deities are a form of religious iconography incorporated into artistic compositions by many religions as a dedication to their respective gods and goddesses.
Paintings of Pan (god) (8 P) Pages in category "Paintings of Greek gods" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The painting was made by Titian for the Sala dei Baccanali in the Camerini d'alabastro for Alfonso I d'Este, after The Worship of Venus (1518–1519) and Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–1523) and Titian's intervention on The Feast of the Gods by Bellini in 1524–1525 where he retouched the landscape to match the style of the other paintings.
Atalanta and Hippomenes is a 1620–1625 oil on canvas painting by Guido Reni, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. [1] The work was a second version of a 1618–1619 version of the subject by the artist which is now in the Prado Museum .