genre: mythological painting / based on: Metamorphoses

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51 artworks found

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instance of: painting (48) | drawing (1) | tapestry (1) | pastel (1)

commissioned by: Charles V (1) | Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1)

owned by: France (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | André Le Nôtre (1) | Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland (1) | John Julius Angerstein (1) | Jules Bache (1) | Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1)

movement: Venetian school (7) | Dutch Golden Age painting (3) | neoclassicism (2) | rococo (2) | mannerism (2) | academic art (2) | classicism (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | Italian Renaissance (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (6) | Titian (6) | Rembrandt (3) | Paolo Veronese (3) | anonymous (3) | Hendrik Goltzius (2) | Bartholomeus Spranger (2) | Michelangelo (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Annibale Carracci (1) | Nicolas Poussin (1) | Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1) | Jacques-Louis David (1) | Jean-Étienne Liotard (1) | François Boucher (1) | Antoine Watteau (1) | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1) | John William Waterhouse (1)

depicts: woman (38) | nudity (28) | sky (27) | man (26) | cloud (25) | rural area (22) | umbilicus (20) | couple (19) | breast (18) | Eros (18) | Adonis (18) | sitting (18) | Cupid (17) | Aphrodite (17) | Venus (17) | hunting dog (16) | clothed male, naked female (16) | tree (14)

material used: oil paint (48) | canvas (32) | wood (12) | copper (2) | paper (2) | pastel (1) | poplar wood (1) | oak (1) | black chalk (1)

collection: Rijksmuseum (6) | Mauritshuis (5) | Museo del Prado (4) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (3) | Hermitage Museum (2) | National Museum in Warsaw (2) | National Gallery (2) | J. Paul Getty Museum (2) | private collection (2) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (2) | British Museum (1) | Israel Museum (1) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Gemäldegalerie (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (1)

location: Rijksmuseum (6) | Mauritshuis (5) | Museo del Prado (3) | Getty Center (2) | Hermitage Museum (2) | National Museum in Warsaw (2) | National Gallery (2) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (2) | British Museum (1) | Israel Museum (1) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Gemäldegalerie (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (1) | Sanssouci Picture Gallery (1) | Ashmolean Museum (1)

country of origin: Italy (4) | France (2) | United Kingdom (1)

main subject: Rape of Europa (2) | washing (1) | Diana and Actaeon (1) | Diana and Callisto (1) | Diana bathing with her nymphs (1) | Perseus and Andromeda (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (1) | tapestry weaving (1)

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

Nymph and Satyr

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

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Titian (1554)
clothed male, naked female Adonis man Titian hair Venus Aphrodite woman nudity sitting back Eros arch quiver hunting dog leash hunting dawn ewer tree sky cloud storm rural area couple Cupid Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft dog collar eye contact sole barefoot toe pigtail

The Abduction of Europa

tapestry
by Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory (19th century)
Zeus Europa kidnapping bull woman

The Death of Hyacinthus

painting
by Merry-Joseph Blondel
Hyacinth man Apollo nudity rural area agony

The Death of Procris

painting
by Piero di Cosimo (1495s)
Procris woman blond dog major trauma agony faun satyr black hair toplessness shore sky mourning hunting cloud male toplessness breast umbilicus

Perseus Freeing Andromeda

painting
by Paolo Veronese (1577)
Perseus Andromeda Ceto damsel in distress woman toplessness prisoner chain blond standing umbilicus breast rock shore sea monster man flight sword city/town clothed male, naked female sea sky cloud pigtail chain nudity city

Pierides changed into magpies.

painting
by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine (1774s)
Pierides Eurasian Magpie lyre

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Joost de Pape (1629)
Venus Aphrodite Adonis couple hug woman eye contact sitting toplessness lovers' embrace blond brown hair part long hair chignon parforce horn spear dagger hunting dog collar rural area broad-leaved tree sky cloud brown breast nipple areola tree trunk

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Bartholomeus Spranger (1587)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity sitting blond glabrousness umbilicus breast areola hug Adonis man standing spear clothed male, naked female sword blowing horn hunting dog dog collar leash Cupid Eros putto bird's wing arrow watercourse satyr nymph toplessness Diana Artemis herd goatherd castle landscape rural area goat pasture grazing hunting sky cloud couple tree

[no title]

pastel
by Jean-Étienne Liotard (1736)
Apollo Daphne Laurel woman standing sky cloud

Venus, Adonis and Cupid

painting
by Annibale Carracci (1590)
Adonis Venus Aphrodite man woman couple nudity Eros rural area Cupid umbilicus breast clothed male, naked female hunting dog bow chignon bird's wing sitting standing

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Titian (1560)
Adonis Venus clothed male, naked female man Titian hair Aphrodite woman nudity sitting back sandal Eros arch quiver hunting dog leash hunting dawn ewer tree sky cloud storm couple rural area Cupid Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft dog collar eye contact sole barefoot toe pigtail

The Abduction of Europa

painting
by Rembrandt (1632)
Zeus Europa bull

Perseus Freeing Andromeda

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1620s)
shore sea rock Pegasus putto bird's wing sea monster sky cloud Perseus man body armor cuirass helmet overcoat sword wind wave Andromeda woman damsel in distress blond long hair standing rope prisoner umbilicus clothed male, naked female breast Ceto winged horse pigtail

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1614)
Venus Aphrodite woman Adonis man nudity diadem blond glabrousness Cupid Eros chariot hunting dog rural area umbilicus breast swan tree cloud sitting wheel couple eye contact lovers' embrace

Vertumnus and Pomona

painting
by Hendrik Goltzius (1613)
Vertumnus Pomona woman nudity elderly long hair Titian hair half reclining breast areola nipple umbilicus glabrousness billhook fruit grape apple Pyrus fruit fruit tree apple tree trunk disguise Vitis vinifera polfex cane garden balustrade drapery sky cloud pigtail mons pubis

Wooded Pool with Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

painting
by Moses van Uyttenbroeck (1627)
pond forest Hermaphroditus Salmacis Caria tree rock nudity nude swimming man woman gaze overweight back buttocks standing clothing long hair Huequitos para Andrea Gluteal sulcus intergluteal cleft cow sky cloud reed washing

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Nicolas Poussin (1626)
Adonis Venus Aphrodite man woman couple nudity Eros rural area Cupid

The Rape of Proserpine

painting
by Niccolò dell'Abbate (1560s)
chariot watercourse kidnapping mountain cloud Pluto Proserpina valley

The Fall of Phaeton

drawing
by Michelangelo (1533)
Jupiter sitting eagle lightning Phaethon falling horse man nudity horse-drawn vehicle quadriga traffic collision Heliades Aegiale Phaethusa Lampetia poplar woman Cycnus swan Eridanos half reclining

The Death of Hyacinth

painting
by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1752)
Hyacinth man male toplessness Apollo agony

Perseus, under the protection of Minerva, turns Phineus into stone

painting
by Jean-Marc Nattier (1718)
Perseus Athena Phineus warrior combat head statue table tableware colonnade pilaster poignard banquet fur Athis kithara dining room diadem xiphos chlamys arrow quiver drapery Medusa tablecloth myrrh

The Metamorphosis of Hermaphrodite and Salmacis

painting
by Jan Gossaert (1520)
Salmacis Hermaphroditus couple nudity fig leaf watercourse rural area combat standing red hair chestnut hair long hair nude swimming breast nipple eyebrow umbilicus glabrousness broad-leaved tree shore sky grass aerial perspective

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Paolo Veronese (1562)
Adonis Venus Aphrodite man woman couple nudity Eros rural area Cupid back Huequitos para Andrea clothed male, naked female eye contact

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Bartholomeus Spranger (1597)
hug kiss couple sitting clothed male, naked female Venus Aphrodite woman nudity see-through clothing glabrousness umbilicus breast nipple blond smile Adonis man brown hair moustache bonnet hunting dog dog collar drapery Cupid Eros quiver arrow bird's wing pigeon landscape aerial perspective lovers' embrace

Ceres in the House of Hecuba

painting
by Adam Elsheimer (1605)
Ceres

Andromeda Chained to the Rocks

painting
by Rembrandt (1631s)
Andromeda damsel in distress woman toplessness prisoner umbilicus rock chain standing shore sea sky night Pathos reed long hair red hair breast Typha latifolia cliff areola nipple

Persée et Andromède

painting
by Jan Keynooghe (1561)
Perseus Andromeda flight rock chain sea monster shore damsel in distress man woman Ceto sea sky cloud

Andromeda

painting
by Edward Poynter (1869)
Andromeda contrapposto nudity shore sea umbilicus rock prisoner breast red hair headband chain foam damsel in distress wind wave night glabrousness drapery None woman waist mons pubis

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Titian (1555)
Adonis Venus clothed male, naked female man Titian hair Aphrodite woman nudity sitting back sandal Eros arch quiver hunting dog leash hunting dawn ewer tree sky cloud storm couple rural area Cupid Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft dog collar eye contact sole barefoot toe pigtail

Perseus and Andromeda

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1622)
Perseus Andromeda clothed male, naked female Medusa Tobiano Pegasus None putto sea monster bird's wing long hair red hair standing body armor shield chignon damsel in distress overcoat umbilicus Ceto winged horse woman

Apollo Revealing his Divinity before the Shepherdess Isse

painting
by François Boucher (1750)
Apollo shepherd putto nymph spring chariot horse flower crown quiver arrow swagger stick lyre torch tree domestic sheep woman landscape

Echo and Narcissus

painting
by John William Waterhouse (1903)
Echo Narcissus couple woman man gaze red hair black hair Chignon clothing in the ancient world toplessness breast sitting shoulder height barefoot toe Narcissus shore tree Hedera rock body of water specular reflection mirror image lying male toplessness watercourse drapery part straw hat bow arrow quiver grass rural area forest sky cloud laurel wreath long hair plain meander fibula flower water lily leaf trunk mushroom areola

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Titian (1560s)
Adonis Venus couple man woman clothed male, naked female Aphrodite sitting hunting dog leash back dawn sleep Eros tree sky storm cloud hat sandal hunting Titian hair ewer quiver arch nudity rural area Huequitos para Andrea Cupid buttocks intergluteal cleft dog collar eye contact sole barefoot toe pigtail

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

painting
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1558)
sea Icarus free fall landscape horse plough domestic sheep bird ship human sunset

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Paolo Veronese (1580)
Venus Adonis Eros dog landscape sleep clothed male, naked female Aphrodite woman sky cloud sitting lying standing rural area tunic sandal hunting dog blond brown hair bracelet pearl necklace earring chignon Cupid couple man

Erichthonius discovered by the daughters of Cecrops

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1616)

The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

painting
by Jan de Bray (1664)
Achilles Odysseus Diomedes Deidamia human pregnancy dress transvestism sword jewelry box necklace dog hat helmet carpet

Dying Adonis

painting
by Hendrik Goltzius (1609)
Adonis man nudity major trauma lying grass spear blood umbilicus brown hair rural area agony cadaver flower sole toe barefoot

Venus and Adonis

painting
by Titian (1560)
Adonis Venus clothed male, naked female man Titian hair Aphrodite woman nudity sitting back sandal Eros arch quiver hunting dog leash hunting dawn ewer tree sky cloud storm couple rural area Huequitos para Andrea Cupid buttocks intergluteal cleft dog collar eye contact sole barefoot toe pigtail

[no title]

painting
by Carlo Saraceni
damsel in distress Andromeda woman prisoner blond chignon sea monster shore rock sea standing chain glabrousness umbilicus breast Ceto Pegasus Perseus flight sky cloud see-through clothing winged horse

Byblis

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
Byblis woman nudity forest vivarium sorrow glabrousness umbilicus breast sitting rock long hair chestnut hair specular reflection plant broad-leaved tree shore waist

Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1611)
Venus Aphrodite woman Adonis man nudity diadem blond glabrousness Cupid Eros chariot hunting dog rural area umbilicus breast swan tree sky cloud sitting wheel couple