genre: mythological painting

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)