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- The Birth of Venus – Sandro Botticelli. Date created: 1484-1486. Dimensions: 172.5 × 278.9 centimeters (67.9 × 109.6 inches) Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
- The Triumph of Galatea – Raphael. Date created: 1512. Dimensions: 295 x 224 centimeters (116.1 x 88.1 inches) Location: Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy. The Triumph of Galatea is a painting by Raphael (1483-1520) that decorates the Villa Farnesina in central Rome.
- The Rape of Europa – Titian. Date created: 1560-1562. Dimensions: 178 × 205 centimeters (70 × 81 inches) Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States.
- Landscape with the Fall of Icarus – Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Date created: 1560. Dimensions: 73.5 × 112 centimeters (28.9 × 44 inches) Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.
- Frank Frazetta. Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) was an American artist regarded as one of the most important and iconic fantasy artists in history. His paintings of muscular heroes, barbarians, and other mythical creatures are his claim to fame.
- Arthur Rackham. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was an English children’s book illustrator best renowned for his gorgeous and intricate images of children’s literature and fairy tales.
- Gerald Brom. Gerald Brom, an American artist and illustrator born in 1965, is renowned for his dark and atmospheric paintings, which frequently depict supernatural beings, horror themes, and post-apocalyptic settings.
- Michael Whelan. Michael Whelan, an American artist and illustrator born in 1950, is renowned for his inventive and breathtaking science fiction and fantasy artwork.
Multiple works by ancient sources, such as Homer, the eighth-century B.C. poet Hesiod, and the fifth-century B.C. lyric poet Pindar, provide a wide-ranging and diverse picture of the fabled creature. According to Hesiod’s Theogony , she was one of three Gorgon sisters born to Keto and Phorkys, primordial sea gods; Medusa was mortal, while the others, Stheno and Euryale, were immortal.
Sep 10, 2015 · The Phaidon Folio. 7 Mythical Beasts From Across Art History That Will Haunt Your Dreams. By Artspace Editors. Sept. 10, 2015. A detail of the Wounded Chimera of Arezzo, at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence. Art history is a veritable menagerie of mythical and hybrid creatures like the chimera, the dragon, and theunicorn.
Sep 11, 2024 · Sold for $3,350 via Artemis Gallery (June 2021). Portrayed in various forms throughout history, art has been a powerful medium for preserving and conveying the rich narratives of mythology. Through sculptures, paintings, and pottery, ancient stories of gods, heroes, and monsters have been immortalized, allowing these tales to transcend time.
Diana was known to be the virgin goddess of childbirth and women. She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry. Cesari’s Diana has an oval face, blond hair and dark eyes, flowing classical drapery, carries a bow and arrow, and is accompanied by two dogs.
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Throughout history the depiction of mythical creatures in art have led to speculations of whether these creatures were real. By using representational techniques and style in these paintings, these artists were able to bring imagination to the canvas in its truest form. in this painting by Franz von Stuck, Sphinx, who is depicted as a woman ...
