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instance of: painting (1,246) | fresco (47) | sculpture (25) | oil sketch (15) | watercolor painting (13) | drawing (12) | statuette (12) | study (8) | mural (7) | statue (6) | mosaic (5) | illustration (4) | sketch (4) | engraving (3) | pastel (3) | illumination (2) | tondo (2) | plate (2)

commissioned by: Philip IV of Spain (6) | Isabella d'Este (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (2) | Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (2) | Agostino Chigi (2) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (2) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (2) | Louis XV of France (1) | Charles V (1) | Julius II (1) | Joachim Murat (1) | Clement IX (1) | Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1) | Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1)

owned by: Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (20) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (12) | France (11) | Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore (6) | Louis XIV of France (4) | Birmingham Museum of Art (4) | Bartolomeo della Nave (4) | Christina of Sweden (3) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (3) | Dallas Museum of Art (3) | Herbert Cook (3) | Antoine Poullain (3) | Napoleon III (2) | Louis XV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (2) | Cardinal Mazarin (2) | Philip IV of Spain (2)

movement: Venetian school (40) | academic art (38) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (34) | neoclassicism (29) | High Renaissance (29) | ancient Roman mural painting (18) | mannerism (16) | Baroque (14) | rococo (14) | Dutch Golden Age painting (12) | Symbolism (11) | classicism (11) | Early Renaissance (9) | Renaissance (5) | Italian Renaissance (5) | Baroque painting (4) | German Renaissance (3) | Art Nouveau (2)

named after: Royal Palace of El Pardo (1) | Tu Marcellus eris (1)

based on: Greek mythology (56) | Metamorphoses (51) | Rape of Europa (22) | Judgement of Paris (13) | birth of Aphrodite (8) | Iliad (6) | Cupid and Psyche (6) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Pygmalion and Galatea (5) | Odyssey (4) | Old Testament (3) | Leda and the Swan (3) | Aeneid (2) | Milky Way (2) | None (2) | Susanna and the Elders (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Jupiter (1)

artist: anonymous (84) | Peter Paul Rubens (74) | Titian (39) | John William Waterhouse (31) | Nicolas Poussin (29) | Gustave Moreau (22) | Edward Burne-Jones (21) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (20) | Jacob Jordaens (18) | François Boucher (17) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (16) | Jacek Malczewski (16) | Johann Heinrich Tischbein (15) | Akseli Gallen-Kallela (14) | Paolo Veronese (13) | Pompeo Batoni (13) | Rembrandt (11) | Jacques-Louis David (11)

part of the series: Isle of the Dead (5) | The Judgment of Paris (5) | Danaë (4) | Medusa (1)

depicts: woman (361) | nudity (216) | Venus (156) | Cupid (154) | man (141) | sky (123) | umbilicus (109) | breast (96) | long hair (95) | cloud (91) | putto (81) | sitting (80) | drapery (74) | blond (71) | Aphrodite (69) | Eros (68) | rural area (66) | tree (59)

material used: oil paint (1,097) | canvas (721) | wood (123) | panel (64) | fresco (59) | marble (30) | tempera (29) | copper (23) | canvas (22) | paper (16) | watercolor paint (14) | oak (9) | ink (7) | cardboard (7) | paint (6) | lime (5) | black chalk (4) | pastel (3)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (121) | private collection (85) | National Museum in Warsaw (79) | Statens Museum for Kunst (66) | Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (46) | Museo del Prado (42) | Rijksmuseum (36) | National Gallery (34) | Musée d'Orsay (30) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (30) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (27) | Hermitage Museum (25) | Mauritshuis (24) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (24) | Uffizi Gallery (24) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (18) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (15) | Museum of the History of France (15)

location: Statens Museum for Kunst (66) | museum's storage space (47) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (45) | Museo del Prado (41) | Rijksmuseum (35) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (29) | National Museum in Warsaw (28) | National Gallery (26) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (26) | Musée d'Orsay (25) | Hermitage Museum (23) | Mauritshuis (22) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (17) | private collection (16) | Room 219 (16) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (13) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (13) | Gemäldegalerie (12)

part of: Nine scenes from Heliodorus' Aethiopica (8) | Sistine Chapel ceiling (5) | Prophets and Sibyls (5) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3) | The Sacrifice of Polyxena (3) | Isle of the Dead (2) | Black Paintings (2) | Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne (2) | The Loves of the Gods (2) | Fonte Gaia (1) | The Great Red Dragon Paintings (1) | Beethoven Frieze (1) | The History of the True Cross (1) | The Myth of Prometheus (1) | Jupiter and Antiope (1) | Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195 (1) | Punishment of a Hunter (1) | Satyr and the Peasants series (1)

country of origin: France (39) | Italy (26) | Spain (13) | United States of America (6) | Switzerland (5) | Finland (1) | Netherlands (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Rome (1)

exhibition history: L'Empire de la couleur (17) | Salon of 1866 (4) | Europeana 280 (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1863 (3) | Salon of 1814 (3) | Velázquez (3) | Corot 1796-1875 (3) | Mirabilis (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon of 1861 (2) | Salon of 1869 (2) | Salon of 1872 (2) | Salon of 1850 (2) | Salon of 1827 (2) | Salon of 1891 (2) | Corps et Ombres (2) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (2)

main subject: Rape of Europa (24) | Judgement of Paris (19) | Leda and the Swan (15) | Venus Anadyomene (13) | Sacrifice of Iphigenia (6) | Diana and Callisto (6) | Toilet of Venus (6) | death (5) | art of sculpture (5) | Pygmalion and Galatea (5) | Rape of Persephone (4) | Diana bathing (4) | suicide of Lucretia (4) | Candaulism (3) | Diana and Actaeon (3) | Perseus and Andromeda (3) | Charites (2) | Orpheus and Eurydice (2)

donated by: Marquess of Hertford (1)

location of final assembly: France (6) | Rome (3) | Mantua (3) | Italy (2) | Vienna (2) | Brussels metropolitan area (2) | London (1) | Germany (1) | Venice (1) | India (1) | Florence (1) | Meissen (1) | Antwerp (1) | Vehmersalmi (1)

published in: Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Europe, a Prophecy (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 68 Paintings (1) | The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 52 Masterpieces (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (49) | chiaroscuro (7) | ink wash painting (5) | oil painting (3) | grisaille (2) | tapestry weaving (1)

The Birth of Minerva

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (17th century)
shield helmet Diana deity javelin Jupiter Mercury Minerva birth cloud parliament sleep Vulcan

Bacchant

painting
by Cima da Conegliano (1505)

The Origin of Sculpture

painting
by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1786)
Pygmalion prayer man sculptor chestnut hair drapery mallet Galatea statue woman nudity sitting bird breast pedestal rose brasero smoke cupola low-angle shot clothed male, naked female gynoid chignon rotunda

Pygmalion Witnessing His Statue Come to Life

painting
by François Lemoyne (1729)
Pygmalion man sculptor Galatea statue putto studio sculpture drapery mallet

Roger freeing Angelica

painting
by Arnold Böcklin (1873)
Angelica Ruggiero

Odysseus returns Chryseis to Her Father

painting
by Claude Lorrain (1655s)
Odysseus Chryseis port sailing ship barque tower palace flag merchant turban sky broad-leaved tree contre-jour light source

A Bacchanal

painting
by Johan Danckerts (1640s)

España

painting
by Diego Velázquez (1655)
spinning wheel Arachne Athena woman Mito de Aracne

The Kiss of the Sphinx

painting
by Franz Stuck (+1895-01-01T00:00:00Z)
man kiss Sphinx

Apollon écorchant Marsyas

painting
by Guido Reni (1620)
Apollo Marsyas écorché music flaying Pan flute lyre nudity

Ceres at the Cottage

painting
by anonymous (17th century)
Ceres

Diana

painting
by Simon Vouet (1637)

Pithia

painting
by Jacek Malczewski (1917)
Pythia man

The Reign of Comus

painting
by Lorenzo Costa (1511)
Anteros Arion Bacchus hill Cupid broad-leaved tree string instrument İznik Janus lyre Mercury plain Venus

Joukahainen's revenge

painting
by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1897)
Joukahainen crossbow rural area

Nike Legions

painting
by Jacek Malczewski (1916)
woman man

Do sławy

painting
by Jacek Malczewski (1903)
angel boy

Venus and Cupid

painting
by Paris Bordone (1545s)
Venus Cupid mountain tree quiver arrow river

Daphnis and Chloé

painting
by François-Louis Français (1872)

Diana and Her nymphs at the Hunt

painting
by Paul Brill (1620)
Diana nymph

Mercury and Argus

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1635s)
Mercury Argus Panoptes Io cattle

Landscape with Nymph and Satyr.

painting
by anonymous (17th century)
Greek nymph satyr

Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe

painting
by Jacques-Louis David (1772)
Niobe child arrow girl Apollo Diana cadaver

Bacchus and Ariadne

painting
by Gerard de Lairesse (1680)
Ariadne Bacchus Corona Borealis Eros man woman sitting male toplessness toplessness umbilicus curtain drapery barefoot nudity long hair brown hair musician tambourine music tent Maenad Naxos Island crown carpet sky cloud night bird's wing

Dante and Virgil In Hell

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850)
Capocchio Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti Dante Alighieri Virgil bite man nudity combat kneeling buttocks brown hair red hair back Huequitos para Andrea standing laurel wreath hell sky cloud wing Inferno gaze devil Gianni Schicchi

Chariclea and Theagenes taken captive by Thyamis (Heliodorus: Aethiopica)

painting
by Karel van Mander III (1640)

The Muse Thalia (the nine muses, c.1771)

painting
by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1771)
woman Thalia

Arsake and her entourage bringing gold and jewels to the temple of Isis at Memphis (Heliodorus: Aethiopica)

painting
by Karel van Mander III (1640)

Nymph and Satyr

painting
by Antoine Watteau (1716)
Jupiter Antiope nudity landscape satyr blond umbilicus chignon sleep rural area sky nymph woman

The Dance of the Cupids.

painting
by Niccolò dell'Abbate (1600)
Cupid dance

Callisto and Jupiter

painting
by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (17th century)
Kallisto Jupiter

Odysseus and Nausicaa

painting
by Pieter Lastman (1619)
Odysseus Nausicaa Memorial Gilded Ewer for Amsterdam Guild in Memory of the Artist's Brother

Brita as Iduna

lithograph
by Carl Larsson (1901)
Brita Larsson Iðunn disguise girl smile blond long hair bangs basket apple candle contrapposto bonnet child gaze towards the viewer

Rea Silvia

statue
by Jacopo della Quercia (1414)
Rhea Silvia Romulus Remus contrapposto toplessness woman

Mars destroying the arts

painting
by Michiel Sweerts (1651)
Mars

Diana and Actaeon

painting
by Henryk Siemiradzki (1886)

Theseus and Achelous

painting
by Jan Steen (1660)
woman

Jupiter and Antiope

painting
by Titian (1540)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity lying umbilicus breast satyr clothed male, naked female Bacchanalia parforce hunting hunting dog rural area tree Cupid Eros bow arrow quiver sky

The Inspiration of the Poet

painting
by Nicolas Poussin (1629)
putto laurel wreath lyre Iliad Odyssey Aeneid Mount Parnassus tree quill Virgil Calliope sky poet Apollo Citharoedus woman

Ariadne & Theseus

painting
by Niccolò Bambini
Ariadne Theseus woman

Venus and Mars

painting
by Paolo Veronese (1570s)
clothed male, naked female Venus Aphrodite woman nudity standing handbra umbilicus breast bracelet necklace pearl earring blond chignon vespaio Mars Ares man sitting cuirass paludamentum ancient Roman military clothing brown hair beard moustache eyebrow Cupid Eros putto bird's wing sword horse bit broad-leaved tree atlas ruins rural area sky cloud true lover's knot lactation hug garden satyr combat helmet drapery

Mars and Venus on a blue background

fresco
by anonymous (2nd century)
Mars Venus Cupid

Etude pour les Champs Elysées

painting
by Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin
Elysium woman nature flower music

The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

painting
by Claude Lorrain (1648)
light source Sun contre-jour sky

Corisca and the Satyr

painting
by Artemisia Gentileschi (1630s)
Corisca satyr nymph wig