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commissioned by: Isabella d'Este (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (2) | Louis XV of France (1) | Charles V (1) | Clement IX (1) | Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1) | Philip IV of Spain (1) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio (1) | Odoardo Farnese (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière (1) | William Imrie (1) | Salomo Wuorio (1)

owned by: France (9) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (5) | Birmingham Museum of Art (4) | Louis XIV of France (3) | Christina of Sweden (3) | Dallas Museum of Art (3) | Napoleon III (2) | Louis XV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (2) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (2) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (2) | Cardinal Mazarin (2) | Philip IV of Spain (2) | Bartolomeo della Nave (2) | Napoleon (1) | Lille (1) | Nuremberg (1)

movement: academic art (36) | Venetian school (34) | neoclassicism (24) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (23) | rococo (14) | classicism (11) | mannerism (10) | High Renaissance (10) | Baroque (8) | Symbolism (5) | Dutch Golden Age painting (5) | Baroque painting (3) | Flemish Baroque painting (2) | Renaissance (1) | Romanticism (1) | Quattrocento (1) | Les Nabis (1) | School of Fontainebleau (1)

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

based on: Metamorphoses (32) | Greek mythology (23) | Rape of Europa (10) | birth of Aphrodite (7) | Cupid and Psyche (6) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Judgement of Paris (6) | Iliad (5) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Old Testament (3) | Odyssey (3) | Milky Way (2) | Ovid (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Trojan War (1) | Aeneid (1) | A Midsummer Night's Dream (1) | Medea (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (35) | Titian (31) | Nicolas Poussin (24) | John William Waterhouse (23) | anonymous (23) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (20) | François Boucher (15) | Gustave Moreau (15) | Pompeo Batoni (13) | Edward Burne-Jones (11) | Anthony van Dyck (9) | Jacob Jordaens (9) | Paolo Veronese (8) | Jacques-Louis David (8) | René-Antoine Houasse (7) | Jacopo Tintoretto (6) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (6) | Akseli Gallen-Kallela (6)

part of the series: Danaë (3) | The Judgment of Paris (2) | Isle of the Dead (1)

depicts: woman (188) | nudity (160) | Venus (97) | Cupid (93) | sky (84) | man (74) | umbilicus (72) | breast (68) | long hair (66) | cloud (58) | putto (56) | drapery (52) | sitting (51) | Aphrodite (50) | Eros (50) | rural area (46) | blond (46) | tree (43)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (95) | National Museum in Warsaw (60) | private collection (46) | Statens Museum for Kunst (41) | Museo del Prado (29) | Musée d'Orsay (25) | National Gallery (22) | Rijksmuseum (18) | Hermitage Museum (16) | Museum of the History of France (15) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (12) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (12) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (11) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (10) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Nationalmuseum (9) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (9) | Uffizi Gallery (9)

location: Statens Museum for Kunst (41) | museum's storage space (34) | Museo del Prado (29) | National Museum in Warsaw (22) | Musée d'Orsay (21) | Rijksmuseum (17) | Hermitage Museum (16) | National Gallery (16) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (12) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (11) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (11) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Nationalmuseum (9) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (9) | Room 702 (8) | Louvre Palace (7) | Condé Museum (7)

part of: Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3) | The Sacrifice of Polyxena (2) | Jupiter and Antiope (1)

country of origin: France (34) | Italy (15) | Spain (6) | United States of America (4) | Finland (1) | Switzerland (1) | United Kingdom (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (3) | Salon of 1814 (3) | Corot 1796-1875 (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | International Exposition 1867 (2) | Salon of 1861 (2) | Salon of 1869 (2) | Salon of 1872 (2) | Salon of 1866 (2) | Salon of 1891 (2) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1) | La Galerie du temps (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1808 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Salon of 1789 (1)

main subject: Rape of Europa (12) | Venus Anadyomene (11) | Judgement of Paris (9) | Diana and Callisto (6) | Leda and the Swan (5) | Toilet of Venus (5) | art of sculpture (4) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Candaulism (3) | Diana and Actaeon (3) | Sacrifice of Iphigenia (3) | Orpheus and Eurydice (2) | Perseus and Andromeda (2) | death (1) | art of painting (1) | Venus (1) | voyeurism (1) | Pygmalion (1)

donated by: Marquess of Hertford (1)

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

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

fabrication method: oil painting (3) | chiaroscuro (2) | grisaille (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

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

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

Diana

painting
by Simon Vouet (1637)

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

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

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

Nymph and Satyr

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

Callisto and Jupiter

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

Mars destroying the arts

painting
by Michiel Sweerts (1651)
Mars

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

The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

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

Jupiter and Io

painting
by Antonio da Correggio (1532)
Jupiter Io

Venus and Cupid

painting
by anonymous (1660)
bijou Cupid woman Venus

Andromède debout et Persée

painting
by Félix Vallotton (1918)
Andromeda Perseus

Sketch for Maidens picking Flowers by a Stream

painting
by John William Waterhouse (1911)
woman flower

A Landscape with the Nurture of Jupiter

painting
by Hendrik Frans van Lint (1737)
Jupiter

Witchcraft (Allegory of Hercules)

painting
by Dosso Dossi (1535)

The Anger of Achilles

painting
by Jacques-Louis David (1819)

Diana Hunting

painting
by Michele Desubleo (17th century)
Diana bow arrow

Jason Charming the Dragon

painting
by Frans de Jongh (1682s)
Jason dragon

Venus Bringing Weapons to Aeneas

painting
by Antoine Coypel (1699)
Venus Aeneas man angel broad-leaved tree helmet cuirass sword shield weapon nudity

Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes (detail).

painting
by Jan Boeckhorst (1650s)
Achilles woman jewellery transvestism

Hesiod and the Muses

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1882)
Hesiod herder Muses swan Pegasus putto landscape nudity shepherd

Medea Rejuvenating Eson

painting
by Domenicus van Wijnen (17th century)
Bivalvia candle comet cuisson fire cave Jason book Medea nudity putto blood

Orpheus and Eurydice

painting
by Titian (1508)
Orpheus Eurydice

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

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1876)

Hell

painting
by Monsù Desiderio (1622)
Pluto Proserpina Cerberus Charon Heracles architecture cave skull demon human skeleton torture Greek underworld cadaver falling statue hell death skeleton time

Diana and Actaeon

painting
by Giuseppe Cesari (1603)
Diana Actaeon

Hercules at the Crossroads

painting
by Pompeo Batoni (1753s)
Heracles vice virtue Athena Rosa

Satyr and Nymphs.

painting
by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (18th century)
satyr Greek nymph