https://mythospedia.com/greek/zeus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-zeus-jupiter-and-thetis.jpg Jupiter and Thetis Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jupiter and Thetis, 1811. A vast enthroned bearded god fills the upper half of the canvas, one arm resting on a bank of cloud; a small kneeling woman reaches up to touch his chin and knee in supplication. An eagle crouches at his feet. https://mythospedia.com/greek/athena/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-athena-pallas-athene.jpg Pallas Athene Gustav Klimt, Pallas Athene, 1898–1899. A close, square, flattened portrait of a helmeted warrior goddess in gold scale armour, filling almost the whole panel; the helmet's cheek-pieces cover most of the face, leaving only the eyes and mouth. https://mythospedia.com/greek/medusa/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-medusa-caravaggio.jpg Medusa Caravaggio, Medusa, 1597–98. A round convex shield painted with a severed head at the instant of decapitation: mouth open in a shout, eyes wide, blood running from the neck, and a mass of writhing snakes in place of hair against a dark green ground. https://mythospedia.com/greek/aphrodite/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-aphrodite-birth-of-venus.jpg The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1480–85. A nude woman stands balanced on a huge scallop shell drifting to shore; at the left two winged wind-figures blow her towards land amid falling flowers, and at the right an attendant steps forward holding out a flowered cloak. https://mythospedia.com/greek/hades/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hades-rape-of-proserpina.jpg The Rape of Proserpina Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of Proserpina, c. 1636–37. A bearded man in a red cloak hauls a struggling young woman backwards towards a waiting chariot while three other women try to hold her; the whole group is packed into a broad horizontal band of tangled limbs and drapery. https://mythospedia.com/greek/persephone/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-persephone-proserpine.jpg Proserpine Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine, 1874. A tall narrow panel: a dark-haired woman in a heavy green-blue robe stands in a shadowed corridor holding a half-eaten pomegranate, her face turned aside, a single shaft of light falling on the wall behind her. https://mythospedia.com/greek/dionysus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-dionysus-bacchus.jpg Bacchus Caravaggio, Bacchus, c. 1593–98. A young man reclines behind a table, bare-shouldered in a loose white sheet, a wreath of vine leaves and grapes in his hair, holding out a shallow glass of red wine; a bowl of fruit sits in front of him, some of it visibly overripe. https://mythospedia.com/greek/hephaestus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hephaestus-forge-of-vulcan.jpg Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan Diego Velázquez, Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, 1630. A working smithy: five half-naked labourers stop what they are doing and stare at a haloed youth in yellow drapery who has just walked in; a strip of glowing iron lies on the anvil and armour hangs on the wall behind. https://mythospedia.com/roman/vulcan/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hephaestus-forge-of-vulcan.jpg Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan Diego Velázquez, Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, 1630. A working smithy: five half-naked labourers stop what they are doing and stare at a haloed youth in yellow drapery who has just walked in; a strip of glowing iron lies on the anvil and armour hangs on the wall behind. https://mythospedia.com/greek/hecate/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hecate-night-of-enitharmons-joy.jpg Hecate, or The Night of Enitharmon's Joy William Blake, Hecate, or The Night of Enitharmon's Joy, c. 1795. A seated figure in a pale robe rests a hand on an open book, with two more figures pressed back to back behind her; an owl, a bat-winged creature, a braying ass and a serpent crowd the dark edges of the composition. https://mythospedia.com/greek/cronus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-cronus-saturn-devouring.jpg Saturn Devouring His Son Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819–23. A tall dark panel: a wild-eyed emaciated giant crouches out of the blackness gripping a small headless body in both fists and biting into its arm, his mouth open and his hair streaming. https://mythospedia.com/roman/saturn/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-cronus-saturn-devouring.jpg Saturn Devouring His Son Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819–23. A tall dark panel: a wild-eyed emaciated giant crouches out of the blackness gripping a small headless body in both fists and biting into its arm, his mouth open and his hair streaming. https://mythospedia.com/greek/prometheus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-prometheus-bound.jpg Prometheus Bound Peter Paul Rubens, Prometheus Bound, c. 1610–18. A muscular man lies pinned upside down across a rock face, chained at the wrist, while a life-sized eagle stands on him with one claw in his eye socket and tears at his exposed side. https://mythospedia.com/myths/prometheus-and-the-theft-of-fire/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-prometheus-bound.jpg Prometheus Bound Peter Paul Rubens, Prometheus Bound, c. 1610–18. A muscular man lies pinned upside down across a rock face, chained at the wrist, while a life-sized eagle stands on him with one claw in his eye socket and tears at his exposed side. https://mythospedia.com/greek/odysseus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-odysseus-ulysses-and-the-sirens.jpg Ulysses and the Sirens John William Waterhouse, Ulysses and the Sirens, 1891. A wide ship's deck seen from above: rowers strain at the oars with their ears stopped while one man stands lashed upright to the mast; seven bird-bodied women with human heads wheel in around the rigging. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-odyssey-the-long-way-home/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-odysseus-ulysses-and-the-sirens.jpg Ulysses and the Sirens John William Waterhouse, Ulysses and the Sirens, 1891. A wide ship's deck seen from above: rowers strain at the oars with their ears stopped while one man stands lashed upright to the mast; seven bird-bodied women with human heads wheel in around the rigging. https://mythospedia.com/greek/sirens/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-sirens-draper.jpg Ulysses and the Sirens Herbert James Draper, Ulysses and the Sirens, c. 1909. Three women climb dripping out of the sea over the gunwale of a rowing boat while the oarsmen keep pulling; a bound figure at the mast strains towards them. The sirens are painted as women, not as birds. https://mythospedia.com/greek/circe/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-circe-offering-the-cup.jpg Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses John William Waterhouse, Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, 1891. A woman sits enthroned facing the viewer, one arm stretched out holding a cup and the other a wand; behind her a large round mirror reflects a small male figure standing in a doorway, and a pig lies at the foot of the throne. https://mythospedia.com/greek/medea/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-medea-sandys.jpg Medea Frederick Sandys, Medea, 1868. A woman stands at a narrow table mixing something in a shallow bowl, coral beads at her throat, a pair of mating toads and a burning brazier in front of her; behind her a gold ground shows a ship and a golden fleece. https://mythospedia.com/greek/pandora/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-pandora-waterhouse.jpg Pandora John William Waterhouse, Pandora, 1896. A young woman kneels in a wood beside a stream, lifting the lid of a large brass-bound chest and leaning in to look; a faint vapour rises from the gap. The container is a chest, not the jar the Greek text describes. https://mythospedia.com/myths/pandoras-jar/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-pandora-waterhouse.jpg Pandora John William Waterhouse, Pandora, 1896. A young woman kneels in a wood beside a stream, lifting the lid of a large brass-bound chest and leaning in to look; a faint vapour rises from the gap. The container is a chest, not the jar the Greek text describes. https://mythospedia.com/greek/minotaur/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-minotaur-watts.jpg The Minotaur George Frederic Watts, The Minotaur, 1885. A bull-headed man leans heavily on a parapet at dawn, staring out to sea with his back to the viewer; one huge hand rests on the stonework, crushing a small bird beneath it. https://mythospedia.com/greek/hydra/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hydra-moreau.jpg Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra Gustave Moreau, Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1875–1876. A hero stands still at the left of a swampy, rock-strewn landscape facing a many-necked serpent that rears up in a fan of heads; bodies lie scattered in the mud between them. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-twelve-labours-of-heracles/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hydra-moreau.jpg Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra Gustave Moreau, Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1875–1876. A hero stands still at the left of a swampy, rock-strewn landscape facing a many-necked serpent that rears up in a fan of heads; bodies lie scattered in the mud between them. https://mythospedia.com/greek/delphi/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-delphi-priestess.jpg Priestess of Delphi John Collier, Priestess of Delphi, 1891. A woman sits on a high three-legged bronze stand over a fissure in the rock, holding a laurel branch and a shallow dish, with vapour rising around her feet in a dark stone chamber. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-abduction-of-persephone/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-abduction-of-persephone-rembrandt.jpg The Abduction of Proserpina Rembrandt, The Abduction of Proserpina, c. 1631–1632. A four-horse chariot plunges out of the picture into darkness; a woman twists round in the arms of her abductor, clawing at his face, while two attendants are dragged along still gripping her trailing robe. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-judgement-of-paris/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-judgement-of-paris-rubens.jpg The Judgement of Paris Peter Paul Rubens, The Judgement of Paris, c. 1633–35. Three nude women stand in a row in a wooded clearing, presenting themselves to a seated shepherd who holds out a golden apple; a winged messenger stands behind him and a peacock waits at the right. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-wooden-horse-and-the-fall-of-troy/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-trojan-horse-tiepolo.jpg The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy, c. 1760. A very wide, low canvas: a huge wooden horse on rollers is hauled through a breached city gate by a crowd, dwarfing the buildings, with soldiers and onlookers packed along the bottom edge. https://mythospedia.com/myths/orpheus-and-eurydice/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-orpheus-corot.jpg Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, 1861. A hazy grey-green wood at twilight: a man holds a lyre above his head and leads a woman by the hand across a clearing, both looking forwards, with pale indistinct figures drifting among the trees behind them. https://mythospedia.com/greek/orpheus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-orpheus-corot.jpg Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, 1861. A hazy grey-green wood at twilight: a man holds a lyre above his head and leads a woman by the hand across a clearing, both looking forwards, with pale indistinct figures drifting among the trees behind them. https://mythospedia.com/myths/theseus-and-the-minotaur/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-theseus-minotaur-cassoni.jpg Theseus and the Minotaur Master of Tavarnelle, Theseus and the Minotaur, c. 1510–15. A long horizontal panel telling the story in stages across one landscape: a ship arriving, a walled maze seen from above, a fight with a bull-headed figure inside it, and figures leaving again at the far right. https://mythospedia.com/greek/theseus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-theseus-minotaur-cassoni.jpg Theseus and the Minotaur Master of Tavarnelle, Theseus and the Minotaur, c. 1510–15. A long horizontal panel telling the story in stages across one landscape: a ship arriving, a walled maze seen from above, a fight with a bull-headed figure inside it, and figures leaving again at the far right. https://mythospedia.com/greek/scylla/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-polyphemus-bocklin.jpg Odysseus and Polyphemus Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus and Polyphemus, 1896. A giant stands on a rocky headland in a heavy surf, both arms raised to hurl a boulder at a small galley below him whose oarsmen are pulling hard away through the breakers. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-bacchae-at-thebes/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-bacchus-and-ariadne.jpg Bacchus and Ariadne Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1520–23. A god leaps from a leopard-drawn chariot in mid-air towards a woman who turns away, startled; behind him a noisy procession of revellers advances, one wrapped in snakes, another dragging a calf's head. https://mythospedia.com/greek/ariadne/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-bacchus-and-ariadne.jpg Bacchus and Ariadne Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1520–23. A god leaps from a leopard-drawn chariot in mid-air towards a woman who turns away, startled; behind him a noisy procession of revellers advances, one wrapped in snakes, another dragging a calf's head. https://mythospedia.com/greek/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-prometheus-fuger.jpg Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind Heinrich Füger, Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind, c. 1790–1817. A standing figure holds up a burning torch in a dark landscape while several crouching, half-lit human forms reach towards the flame from the shadows below him. https://mythospedia.com/norse/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-hub-wild-hunt.jpg Åsgårdsreien (The Wild Hunt of Odin) Peter Nicolai Arbo, Åsgårdsreien (The Wild Hunt of Odin), 1872. A wide canvas of riders and horses boiling through a night sky in a single diagonal surge, spears and streaming hair against ragged cloud, with a spear-carrying leader on a many-legged horse near the centre. https://mythospedia.com/norse/thor/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-thor-battle-against-the-jotnar.jpg Thor's Fight with the Giants Mårten Eskil Winge, Thor's Fight with the Giants, 1872. A tall canvas: a red-bearded man stands braced in a goat-drawn chariot swinging a short-handled hammer overhead, lightning cracking around him, while grey rock-like figures tumble away below. https://mythospedia.com/norse/mjolnir/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-thor-battle-against-the-jotnar.jpg Thor's Fight with the Giants Mårten Eskil Winge, Thor's Fight with the Giants, 1872. A tall canvas: a red-bearded man stands braced in a goat-drawn chariot swinging a short-handled hammer overhead, lightning cracking around him, while grey rock-like figures tumble away below. https://mythospedia.com/norse/loki/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-loki-and-sigyn.jpg Loki and Sigyn Mårten Eskil Winge and Gunnar Forssell, Loki and Sigyn, 1863. A bound man writhes on a slab in a cave while a woman kneels over him holding a wide bowl above his face to catch something dripping from a serpent coiled in the rock overhead. https://mythospedia.com/norse/sigyn/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-loki-and-sigyn.jpg Loki and Sigyn Mårten Eskil Winge and Gunnar Forssell, Loki and Sigyn, 1863. A bound man writhes on a slab in a cave while a woman kneels over him holding a wide bowl above his face to catch something dripping from a serpent coiled in the rock overhead. https://mythospedia.com/norse/valkyries/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-valkyrie-arbo.jpg Valkyrien (The Valkyrie) Peter Nicolai Arbo, Valkyrien (The Valkyrie), 1869. An armoured woman on a white horse rides out of a bank of storm cloud with a spear couched under one arm, ravens flying alongside and a dark battlefield far below. https://mythospedia.com/norse/sigurd/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-sigurd-and-fafnir-rackham.jpg Illustration to Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods Arthur Rackham, Illustration to Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, 1911. A pen-and-watercolour book plate in a spindly, tapering line: a small human figure confronts a long-bodied dragon among rocks, the creature's coils filling most of the height of the page. https://mythospedia.com/myths/sigurd-and-fafnir/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-sigurd-and-fafnir-rackham.jpg Illustration to Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods Arthur Rackham, Illustration to Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, 1911. A pen-and-watercolour book plate in a spindly, tapering line: a small human figure confronts a long-bodied dragon among rocks, the creature's coils filling most of the height of the page. https://mythospedia.com/celtic/ https://mythospedia.com/art/celtic-riders-of-the-sidhe.jpg The Riders of the Sidhe John Duncan, The Riders of the Sidhe, 1911. Four riders in patterned robes move slowly across the picture in single file on heavy horses, each carrying an object — a cup, a sword, a stone, a branch of blossom — with a crowd of small pale faces packed into the ground below them. https://mythospedia.com/celtic/tuatha-de-danann/ https://mythospedia.com/art/celtic-riders-of-the-sidhe.jpg The Riders of the Sidhe John Duncan, The Riders of the Sidhe, 1911. Four riders in patterned robes move slowly across the picture in single file on heavy horses, each carrying an object — a cup, a sword, a stone, a branch of blossom — with a crowd of small pale faces packed into the ground below them. https://mythospedia.com/celtic/queen-medb/ https://mythospedia.com/art/celtic-queen-maev-leyendecker.jpg Queen Maev Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Queen Maev, 1911. A book illustration in flat decorative colour: a crowned woman in a long robe stands in profile with a bird perched on her raised hand, framed by stylised trees. https://mythospedia.com/roman/romulus-and-remus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-romulus-and-remus-rubens.jpg Romulus and Remus Peter Paul Rubens, Romulus and Remus, c. 1616. Two naked infants sprawl in the grass beside a she-wolf that stands over them; a woodpecker perches on a branch above, and a reclining river-god and a shepherd watch from the left. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-founding-of-rome/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-romulus-and-remus-rubens.jpg Romulus and Remus Peter Paul Rubens, Romulus and Remus, c. 1616. Two naked infants sprawl in the grass beside a she-wolf that stands over them; a woodpecker perches on a branch above, and a reclining river-god and a shepherd watch from the left. https://mythospedia.com/roman/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-romulus-and-remus-rubens.jpg Romulus and Remus Peter Paul Rubens, Romulus and Remus, c. 1616. Two naked infants sprawl in the grass beside a she-wolf that stands over them; a woodpecker perches on a branch above, and a reclining river-god and a shepherd watch from the left. https://mythospedia.com/roman/aeneas/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-aeneas-flight-from-troy.jpg Aeneas' Flight from Troy Federico Barocci, Aeneas' Flight from Troy, 1598. A man carries an elderly figure on his shoulders down a flight of steps, holding a small boy by the hand, with a woman following behind; a burning colonnaded city fills the background. https://mythospedia.com/myths/aeneas-leaves-troy/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-aeneas-flight-from-troy.jpg Aeneas' Flight from Troy Federico Barocci, Aeneas' Flight from Troy, 1598. A man carries an elderly figure on his shoulders down a flight of steps, holding a small boy by the hand, with a woman following behind; a burning colonnaded city fills the background. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-rape-of-the-sabine-women/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-sabine-women-david.jpg The Intervention of the Sabine Women Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799. Two armed men lunge at each other across the foreground while a woman in white throws herself between them with both arms spread; small children crawl on the ground at their feet and a dense crowd of soldiers presses in behind. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-descent-of-aeneas-to-the-underworld/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-aeneas-underworld-brueghel.jpg Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld Jan Brueghel the Elder, Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, c. 1600. A cavernous landscape lit by orange fires: two small figures pick their way along a path at the left past crowds of tormented bodies, ruined arches and monstrous animals stretching back into the smoke. https://mythospedia.com/roman/mercury/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-mercury-goltzius.jpg Mercury Hendrik Goltzius, Mercury, 1611. A seated young man with small wings in his hair and a winged hat beside him leans forward holding a staff twined with two snakes; a cockerel stands on the ledge at his elbow. https://mythospedia.com/greek/hermes/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-mercury-goltzius.jpg Mercury Hendrik Goltzius, Mercury, 1611. A seated young man with small wings in his hair and a winged hat beside him leans forward holding a staff twined with two snakes; a cockerel stands on the ledge at his elbow. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-weighing-of-the-heart/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-weighing-of-the-heart-hunefer.jpg The weighing of the heart, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer Unknown ancient Egyptian painter, The weighing of the heart, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE. A long painted papyrus strip read left to right: a jackal-headed figure leads a man to a balance and adjusts the plumb-line, a heart in one pan and a feather in the other; an ibis-headed scribe records the result, a hybrid beast waits beside the scales, and an enthroned mummiform king receives the man at the far right. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/anubis/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-weighing-of-the-heart-hunefer.jpg The weighing of the heart, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer Unknown ancient Egyptian painter, The weighing of the heart, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE. A long painted papyrus strip read left to right: a jackal-headed figure leads a man to a balance and adjusts the plumb-line, a heart in one pan and a feather in the other; an ibis-headed scribe records the result, a hybrid beast waits beside the scales, and an enthroned mummiform king receives the man at the far right. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-weighing-of-the-heart-hunefer.jpg The weighing of the heart, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer Unknown ancient Egyptian painter, The weighing of the heart, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE. A long painted papyrus strip read left to right: a jackal-headed figure leads a man to a balance and adjusts the plumb-line, a heart in one pan and a feather in the other; an ibis-headed scribe records the result, a hybrid beast waits beside the scales, and an enthroned mummiform king receives the man at the far right. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/osiris/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-opening-of-the-mouth-hunefer.jpg The opening of the mouth ceremony, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer Unknown ancient Egyptian painter, The opening of the mouth ceremony, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE. A funerary scene on papyrus: an upright mummy case is steadied by a jackal-headed figure outside a tomb while priests touch its face with implements, women raise their arms in mourning, and offerings are stacked at the left. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-murder-of-osiris/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-opening-of-the-mouth-hunefer.jpg The opening of the mouth ceremony, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer Unknown ancient Egyptian painter, The opening of the mouth ceremony, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE. A funerary scene on papyrus: an upright mummy case is steadied by a jackal-headed figure outside a tomb while priests touch its face with implements, women raise their arms in mourning, and offerings are stacked at the left. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/thoth/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-hunefer-sheet-5.jpg Book of the Dead of Hunefer, sheet 5 Unknown ancient Egyptian painter, Book of the Dead of Hunefer, sheet 5, c. 1275 BCE. A sheet of funerary papyrus: columns of hieroglyphic text above a register of small painted figures of deities and the deceased, in flat red, blue, green and black on a pale ground. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/ra/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-hunefer-sheet-3.jpg Book of the Dead of Hunefer, sheet 3 Unknown ancient Egyptian painter, Book of the Dead of Hunefer, sheet 3, c. 1275 BCE. A sheet of funerary papyrus ruled into registers: dense columns of hieroglyphs above rows of small seated deities and offering scenes, painted in flat colour with black outline. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/izanagi/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-izanagi-izanami-eitaku.jpg Izanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islands Kobayashi Eitaku, Izanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islands, 1884. Two robed figures stand on an arching bridge of cloud, one of them dipping a long jewelled spear into a churning sea below; drips from the spear-tip are shown falling and gathering into land. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/izanami/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-izanagi-izanami-eitaku.jpg Izanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islands Kobayashi Eitaku, Izanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islands, 1884. Two robed figures stand on an arching bridge of cloud, one of them dipping a long jewelled spear into a churning sea below; drips from the spear-tip are shown falling and gathering into land. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-izanagi-izanami-eitaku.jpg Izanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islands Kobayashi Eitaku, Izanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islands, 1884. Two robed figures stand on an arching bridge of cloud, one of them dipping a long jewelled spear into a churning sea below; drips from the spear-tip are shown falling and gathering into land. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/raijin/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-fujin-raijin-korin.jpg Wind God and Thunder God Ogata Kōrin, Wind God and Thunder God, early 18th century. A wide gold ground with two demonic figures at opposite corners: one green, carried on cloud with a windbag stretched behind his shoulders, the other white, ringed by a hoop of small drums and holding a pair of beaters. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/fujin/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-fujin-raijin-korin.jpg Wind God and Thunder God Ogata Kōrin, Wind God and Thunder God, early 18th century. A wide gold ground with two demonic figures at opposite corners: one green, carried on cloud with a windbag stretched behind his shoulders, the other white, ringed by a hoop of small drums and holding a pair of beaters. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/ame-no-uzume/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-ame-no-uzume-hokkei.jpg Ame no Uzume, from The Cave Door of Spring Hokkei, Ame no Uzume, from The Cave Door of Spring, 1825. A woodblock print of a woman mid-dance, robes swinging open, standing on an upturned tub with a spray of leaves in her hand and a rock face behind her. https://mythospedia.com/myths/amaterasu-and-the-cave/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-ame-no-uzume-hokkei.jpg Ame no Uzume, from The Cave Door of Spring Hokkei, Ame no Uzume, from The Cave Door of Spring, 1825. A woodblock print of a woman mid-dance, robes swinging open, standing on an upturned tub with a spray of leaves in her hand and a rock face behind her. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/benzaiten/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-benzaiten-on-a-white-dragon.jpg Benzaiten Seated on a White Dragon Aoigaoka Keisei, Benzaiten Seated on a White Dragon, 1832. A near-square print: a seated female figure in patterned court robes rides on the back of a pale coiling dragon that rises through cloud, her hair pinned and a small shrine gate on her headdress. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/jorogumo/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-tsuchigumo-sekien.jpg Tsuchigumo, from the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki Toriyama Sekien, Tsuchigumo, from the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki, 1779. A monochrome printed book page: a huge spider with a striped abdomen crouches on a hillside above a sleeping figure, drawn in fine black line with grey wash and no colour. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/oni/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-omagatoki-sekien.jpg Omagatoki, from the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki Toriyama Sekien, Omagatoki, from the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki, 1779. A monochrome printed book spread: a crowd of small horned and misshapen figures spills out of a gateway at dusk in fine black line, with a dark wash of sky above the roofline. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/tengu/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-ushiwaka-at-kurama-kuniyoshi.jpg Ushiwaka Training at Kurama Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ushiwaka Training at Kurama, 1858. A tall woodblock print sheet: a slight young swordsman leaps among pines on a steep mountainside, fenced in by long-nosed, red-faced winged figures in monkish dress who spring at him from the rocks. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-hub-murugan-ravi-varma.jpg Murugan Raja Ravi Varma, Murugan, before 1906. A youthful six-armed deity stands on a peacock with a spear in one hand, painted in the round modelled European manner with deep shadow and a landscape receding behind. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/kartikeya/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-hub-murugan-ravi-varma.jpg Murugan Raja Ravi Varma, Murugan, before 1906. A youthful six-armed deity stands on a peacock with a spear in one hand, painted in the round modelled European manner with deep shadow and a landscape receding behind. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/lakshmi/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-lakshmi-ravi-varma.jpg Lakshmi Raja Ravi Varma, Lakshmi, printed 1930s, after a design by Raja Ravi Varma. A four-armed goddess stands on an open lotus in the middle of a pool, holding lotus buds, with coins falling from one lowered hand and two elephants pouring water over her from above. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/saraswati/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-saraswati-ravi-varma.jpg Saraswati Raja Ravi Varma, Saraswati, c. 1930 printing, after Raja Ravi Varma. A seated goddess in a white sari holds a long stringed instrument across her body, a swan at her side and a river behind, painted with the soft modelling and staged drapery of academic oil portraiture. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/krishna/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-krishna-radha-in-the-moonlight.jpg Radha in the Moonlight Raja Ravi Varma, Radha in the Moonlight, 1890. A woman in a red-bordered sari sits on a stone terrace at night writing on a leaf, a small lamp beside her, with a moonlit river and dark trees behind. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/rama/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-rama-breaking-the-bow.jpg Rama Breaking the Bow Raja Ravi Varma, Rama Breaking the Bow, before 1906. A crowded court scene: a young man in the centre snaps an enormous bow across his knee while an assembly of seated princes and courtiers recoils, and a woman waits at the right holding a garland. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-ramayana-in-brief/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-rama-breaking-the-bow.jpg Rama Breaking the Bow Raja Ravi Varma, Rama Breaking the Bow, before 1906. A crowded court scene: a young man in the centre snaps an enormous bow across his knee while an assembly of seated princes and courtiers recoils, and a woman waits at the right holding a garland. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/ravana/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-ravana-sita-jatayu.jpg Jatayu Vadha (Ravana Carrying Off Sita) Raja Ravi Varma, Jatayu Vadha (Ravana Carrying Off Sita), 1895. A many-headed figure grips a struggling woman under one arm in mid-air while a great vulture attacks him from below; a broken chariot and a mountainous landscape fall away underneath. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/sita/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-ravana-sita-jatayu.jpg Jatayu Vadha (Ravana Carrying Off Sita) Raja Ravi Varma, Jatayu Vadha (Ravana Carrying Off Sita), 1895. A many-headed figure grips a struggling woman under one arm in mid-air while a great vulture attacks him from below; a broken chariot and a mountainous landscape fall away underneath. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-churning-of-the-ocean/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-churning-of-the-ocean.jpg The Churning of the Ocean of Milk Unknown artist, The Churning of the Ocean of Milk, c. 1800. A miniature painting: two ranks of figures pull on a serpent wound round a mountain standing in the sea, a tortoise beneath it, with a horse, an elephant and a many-armed deity emerging from the water around them. https://mythospedia.com/mesopotamian/ https://mythospedia.com/art/mesopotamian-monuments-of-nineveh.jpg Plate from The Monuments of Nineveh After Austen Henry Layard and George Scharf, Plate from The Monuments of Nineveh, 1849. A nineteenth-century lithographed plate recording Assyrian palace sculpture: winged human-headed bulls and registers of bearded attendants copied in outline, with the excavator's measurements and the broken edges of the stone drawn in. https://mythospedia.com/greek/hera/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hera-origin-of-the-milky-way.jpg The Origin of the Milky Way Jacopo Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way, c. 1575. A woman is lifted through the air by putti above a bed while a man holds an infant to her breast; jets of milk spray upward and turn into a scatter of stars across the dark upper canvas. https://mythospedia.com/roman/juno/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-hera-origin-of-the-milky-way.jpg The Origin of the Milky Way Jacopo Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way, c. 1575. A woman is lifted through the air by putti above a bed while a man holds an infant to her breast; jets of milk spray upward and turn into a scatter of stars across the dark upper canvas. https://mythospedia.com/greek/demeter/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-demeter-mourning-persephone.jpg Demeter Mourning for Persephone Evelyn De Morgan, Demeter Mourning for Persephone, 1906. A seated woman in a grey-gold robe leans heavily on one hand in a bare, wintry field of broken stubble; a bird flies low behind her and the sky is a flat cold band of colour. https://mythospedia.com/greek/perseus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-perseus-and-andromeda-leighton.jpg Perseus and Andromeda Frederic Leighton, Perseus and Andromeda, 1891. A tall canvas: a chained woman crouches against a rock face beneath the outspread black wing of a dragon that fills the middle of the picture, while a small winged rider fires down at it from a burst of light overhead. https://mythospedia.com/myths/perseus-and-medusa/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-perseus-and-andromeda-leighton.jpg Perseus and Andromeda Frederic Leighton, Perseus and Andromeda, 1891. A tall canvas: a chained woman crouches against a rock face beneath the outspread black wing of a dragon that fills the middle of the picture, while a small winged rider fires down at it from a burst of light overhead. https://mythospedia.com/greek/pegasus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-pegasus-redon.jpg Muse on Pegasus Odilon Redon, Muse on Pegasus, c. 1900. A hazy, softly coloured composition in which a robed figure sits astride a pale winged horse rising against an indeterminate ground of blue, gold and rose, with no clear horizon. https://mythospedia.com/myths/daedalus-and-icarus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-icarus-draper.jpg The Lament for Icarus Herbert James Draper, The Lament for Icarus, 1898. A young man's body lies slumped on a rock with an enormous pair of brown feathered wings still strapped to his back, three women bending over him; the light is a hot low gold. https://mythospedia.com/myths/eros-and-psyche/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-eros-and-psyche-gerard.jpg Psyche and Amour (detail) François Gérard, Psyche and Amour (detail), 1798. A smooth, cool-toned neoclassical detail: a winged youth bends to kiss the forehead of a seated woman who stares straight ahead, unaware of him, a butterfly hovering above her head. https://mythospedia.com/greek/eros/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-eros-and-psyche-gerard.jpg Psyche and Amour (detail) François Gérard, Psyche and Amour (detail), 1798. A smooth, cool-toned neoclassical detail: a winged youth bends to kiss the forehead of a seated woman who stares straight ahead, unaware of him, a butterfly hovering above her head. https://mythospedia.com/norse/baldr/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-baldr-dead-eckersberg.jpg The Death of Baldr Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, The Death of Baldr, 1817. A hall interior in cool neoclassical light: a young man lies dead on the floor at the centre while a ring of standing figures recoil; one at the left is being led away, another raises both arms. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-death-of-baldr/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-baldr-dead-eckersberg.jpg The Death of Baldr Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, The Death of Baldr, 1817. A hall interior in cool neoclassical light: a young man lies dead on the floor at the centre while a ring of standing figures recoil; one at the left is being led away, another raises both arms. https://mythospedia.com/norse/jormungandr/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-thor-and-the-midgard-serpent-fuseli.jpg Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent Henry Fuseli, Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent, 1790. A muscular figure braces in the stern of a small boat, hammer raised, hauling on a line that runs down into the water where a serpent's head rears up; an old man cowers behind him and a face looks down from the clouds. https://mythospedia.com/myths/thors-fishing-trip/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-thor-and-the-midgard-serpent-fuseli.jpg Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent Henry Fuseli, Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent, 1790. A muscular figure braces in the stern of a small boat, hammer raised, hauling on a line that runs down into the water where a serpent's head rears up; an old man cowers behind him and a face looks down from the clouds. https://mythospedia.com/norse/freyja/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-freyja-blommer.jpg Freja Seeking Her Husband Nils Blommér, Freja Seeking Her Husband, 1852. A wide canvas: a woman in white drives a light chariot drawn by two large cats through a pale sky, small winged figures drifting alongside and a landscape far below. https://mythospedia.com/norse/frigg/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-frigg-spinning-dollman.jpg Frigg Spinning the Clouds John Charles Dollman, Frigg Spinning the Clouds, published 1909. A book plate: a seated woman works a distaff and spindle on a bank of cloud, the thread she spins running away into the sky and thickening into the cloudbank itself. https://mythospedia.com/myths/dido-and-aeneas/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-death-of-dido-guercino.jpg The Death of Dido Guercino, The Death of Dido, 1630–31. A woman slumps back on a stacked funeral pyre with a sword in her side, one arm falling loose; attendants press round her and a distant harbour with ships is visible through the opening at the left. https://mythospedia.com/roman/cupid/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-cupid-first-kiss-bouguereau.jpg The First Kiss William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The First Kiss, 1890. Two winged children sit together on a rock in a smooth, highly finished academic style: one with feathered wings leans in to kiss the other, who has translucent butterfly wings. https://mythospedia.com/celtic/cu-chulainn/ https://mythospedia.com/art/celtic-cuchulain-in-battle.jpg Cuchulain in Battle Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Cuchulain in Battle, 1911. A book plate in strong flat colour: a warrior stands in a chariot with his hair streaming and his features contorted, driving over fallen bodies, drawn with hard poster-like outlines. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-cattle-raid-of-cooley/ https://mythospedia.com/art/celtic-cuchulain-in-battle.jpg Cuchulain in Battle Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Cuchulain in Battle, 1911. A book plate in strong flat colour: a warrior stands in a chariot with his hair streaming and his features contorted, driving over fallen bodies, drawn with hard poster-like outlines. https://mythospedia.com/greek/mount-olympus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-fall-of-the-giants-romano.jpg The Fall of the Giants Giulio Romano, The Fall of the Giants, c. 1532. A fresco of collapsing architecture: enormous columns and blocks of masonry topple outward and downward onto sprawling human figures who are crushed beneath them, painted to continue past the edges of the wall. https://mythospedia.com/greek/poseidon/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-poseidon-neptunes-horses.jpg Neptune's Horses Walter Crane, Neptune's Horses, c. 1892. A long horizontal canvas in which the crests of breaking waves resolve into a line of white horses galloping towards the shore, driven by a trident-carrying figure rising out of the surf behind them. https://mythospedia.com/roman/neptune/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-poseidon-neptunes-horses.jpg Neptune's Horses Walter Crane, Neptune's Horses, c. 1892. A long horizontal canvas in which the crests of breaking waves resolve into a line of white horses galloping towards the shore, driven by a trident-carrying figure rising out of the surf behind them. https://mythospedia.com/greek/apollo/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-apollo-and-daphne-poussin.jpg Apollo in Love with Daphne Nicolas Poussin, Apollo in Love with Daphne, 1664. A crowded, softly painted landscape of reclining and standing figures under trees, with a laurel-crowned youth seated at the left and a river-god propped on an urn in the foreground. https://mythospedia.com/greek/artemis/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-artemis-diana-and-actaeon.jpg Diana and Actaeon Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556–1559. A hunter pushes through a red curtain at the left and stops dead; a group of bathing women scatter around a stone fountain, one of them turning to stare back at him. A stag's skull sits on the pier above. https://mythospedia.com/roman/diana/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-artemis-diana-and-actaeon.jpg Diana and Actaeon Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556–1559. A hunter pushes through a red curtain at the left and stops dead; a group of bathing women scatter around a stone fountain, one of them turning to stare back at him. A stag's skull sits on the pier above. https://mythospedia.com/greek/ares/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-ares-venus-and-mars.jpg Venus and Mars Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c. 1483–1485. A long, low panel: a woman sits upright and awake at the left in a white gown, facing a man sprawled asleep and half-naked at the right, while four small horned satyrs play with his discarded armour and lance. https://mythospedia.com/roman/mars/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-ares-venus-and-mars.jpg Venus and Mars Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c. 1483–1485. A long, low panel: a woman sits upright and awake at the left in a white gown, facing a man sprawled asleep and half-naked at the right, while four small horned satyrs play with his discarded armour and lance. https://mythospedia.com/greek/achilles/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-wrath-of-achilles-rubens.jpg The Wrath of Achilles Peter Paul Rubens, The Wrath of Achilles, c. 1630–35. A tight, muscular group: a young warrior lunges forward drawing his sword while a figure behind seizes him by the hair to hold him back, and an older man in a crown recoils at the right. https://mythospedia.com/roman/jupiter/ https://mythospedia.com/art/roman-jupiter-and-io-correggio.jpg Jupiter and Io Antonio da Correggio, Jupiter and Io, c. 1530. A very tall, narrow canvas: a seated nude woman leans back with her face lifted, enfolded by a dark grey cloud that resolves into a shadowy profile and a hand at her waist. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/inari/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-fox-fires-at-oji-hiroshige.jpg Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Changing Tree, Oji Utagawa Hiroshige, Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Changing Tree, Oji, 1857. A vertical night print in deep blue and black: dozens of pale foxes gather in a dark field beneath a bare tree, each with a small floating flame at its muzzle, the flames receding into the distance in a line. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/kitsune/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-fox-fires-at-oji-hiroshige.jpg Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Changing Tree, Oji Utagawa Hiroshige, Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Changing Tree, Oji, 1857. A vertical night print in deep blue and black: dozens of pale foxes gather in a dark field beneath a bare tree, each with a small floating flame at its muzzle, the flames receding into the distance in a line. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/hanuman/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-ramapanchayan-ravi-varma.jpg Rama Panchayatan Raja Ravi Varma, Rama Panchayatan, before 1906. A formal group portrait: a crowned couple sit enthroned on a dais with two attendants standing behind, while a kneeling monkey-headed figure bows at their feet with hands joined. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/draupadi/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-draupadi-and-simhika.jpg Draupadi and Simhika Raja Ravi Varma, Draupadi and Simhika, 1896. Two women in saris confront each other in a shadowed interior, one seated and drawn back, the other standing over her with an arm raised; the painting is worked in the modelled, theatrically lit manner of European salon portraiture. https://mythospedia.com/myths/the-mahabharata-dice-game/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-draupadi-vastraharan.jpg Draupadi Vastraharan Raja Ravi Varma, Draupadi Vastraharan, c. 1888–1890. A hall of seated men watches as one figure hauls at the sari of a woman standing in the centre of the floor; the fabric she is wrapped in runs away in unending folds across the boards. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/hathor/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-mentuhotep-and-hathor-relief.jpg Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor Unknown ancient Egyptian sculptor, Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor, c. 2010–2000 BCE. A long block of carved limestone in shallow relief, traces of paint surviving: a standing figure faces a seated one across a register of hieroglyphs, the cut lines crisp and the stone broken away at both ends. https://mythospedia.com/blog/where-the-art-comes-from/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-description-de-legypte-philae.jpg Bas-reliefs at Philae, from the Description de l'Égypte Published by C. L. F. Panckoucke, after the survey draughtsmen of the Commission des Sciences et Arts, Bas-reliefs at Philae, from the Description de l'Égypte, published 1809–1829. An engraved survey plate: three registers of Egyptian temple relief copied in fine outline, with the figures, headdresses and hieroglyphic columns drawn flat and the broken edges of the stone shown where the originals are lost. https://mythospedia.com/norse/odin/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-odins-self-sacrifice.jpg Odin's Self-sacrifice W.G. Collingwood, Odin's Self-sacrifice, published 1908. A line-and-wash book illustration: a bearded, spear-pierced figure hangs upside down in the branches of a great tree, arms loose, with the trunk and roots filling the height of the page. https://mythospedia.com/norse/fenrir/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-fenrir-and-odin-frolich.jpg Fenrir and Odin Lorenz Frølich, Fenrir and Odin, published 1895. A wide pen drawing: an armoured rider with a raised spear charges from the right at an enormous open-jawed wolf that rears up to meet him, both drawn in fine hatched line. https://mythospedia.com/norse/sleipnir/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-volva-odin-sleipnir-frolich.jpg Völva, Odin, Sleipnir and the Hel-hound Lorenz Frølich, Völva, Odin, Sleipnir and the Hel-hound, published 1895. A pen drawing: a rider on a horse with more than four legs halts before a seated cloaked figure, while a large hound and the horse stare at one another across the gap between them. https://mythospedia.com/myths/ragnarok/ https://mythospedia.com/art/norse-ragnarok-collingwood.jpg Ragnarök, after a motif from the Heysham hogback W.G. Collingwood, Ragnarök, after a motif from the Heysham hogback, published 1908. A long, low drawing copied from a carved stone: interlaced beasts and armed figures run in a single band from edge to edge, the shapes flattened and stylised as the carving has them. https://mythospedia.com/japanese/amaterasu/ https://mythospedia.com/art/japanese-amaterasu-cave-kunisada.jpg Amaterasu Emerging from the Cave Utagawa Kunisada, Amaterasu Emerging from the Cave, 1856. A wide three-sheet print: a robed figure steps out of a rock cleft trailing a blaze of light across the whole width, while a crowd of courtiers and musicians press back on either side. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/kali/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-kali-trampling-shiva-ravi-varma.jpg Kali Trampling Shiva Raja Ravi Varma, Kali Trampling Shiva, c. 1910 printing, after Raja Ravi Varma. A dark-skinned four-armed goddess with her tongue out stands astride a pale prone male figure, holding a curved sword and a severed head, a garland of heads at her neck. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/isis/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-isis-nursing-horus-met.jpg Statuette of Isis nursing Horus Unknown ancient Egyptian bronze-caster, Statuette of Isis nursing Horus, c. 1070–664 BCE. A small cast bronze figure, front view against a plain ground: a seated woman with a horned sun-disc headdress supports an infant across her lap and holds one breast towards him. https://mythospedia.com/egyptian/horus/ https://mythospedia.com/art/egyptian-isis-nursing-horus-met.jpg Statuette of Isis nursing Horus Unknown ancient Egyptian bronze-caster, Statuette of Isis nursing Horus, c. 1070–664 BCE. A small cast bronze figure, front view against a plain ground: a seated woman with a horned sun-disc headdress supports an infant across her lap and holds one breast towards him. https://mythospedia.com/greek/heracles/ https://mythospedia.com/art/greek-antimenes-amphora-athena-herakles.jpg Attic black-figure amphora: Athena and Herakles in a chariot Antimenes Painter, Attic black-figure amphora: Athena and Herakles in a chariot, c. 510 BCE. A black-figure vase photographed against a plain ground: on the body, a four-horse chariot carrying a helmeted woman and a club-carrying man in a lion-skin, with other figures standing at either side, painted in black silhouette with incised detail on the orange clay. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/durga/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-durga-destroying-the-buffalo-demon.jpg Durga Destroying the Buffalo Demon Unknown Indian sculptor, Durga Destroying the Buffalo Demon, c. 800 CE. A carved stone panel: a many-armed female figure strides to the right, weapons in each hand, driving a trident down into a buffalo-headed figure collapsing beneath her. https://mythospedia.com/myths/durga-and-the-buffalo-demon/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-durga-slayer-of-the-buffalo-demon-bronze.jpg Durga as the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon Unknown Indian bronze-caster, Durga as the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon, c. 900 CE. A tall cast bronze figure: a four-armed goddess stands upright and frontal, weapons raised in her upper hands, with a severed buffalo head on the base at her feet. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/shiva/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-nataraja-shiva-lord-of-dance.jpg Nataraja, Shiva as the Lord of Dance Unknown Chola-period bronze-caster, Nataraja, Shiva as the Lord of Dance, c. 1000 CE. A cast bronze figure photographed against a plain ground: a four-armed dancer stands within a ring of flame, one leg raised across the body, hair flying out in strands, one foot planted on a small crouching figure. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/ganesha/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-ganesha-cleveland.jpg Ganesha Unknown Indian sculptor, Ganesha, c. 1070 CE. A carved stone figure of a seated elephant-headed deity with a heavy belly and several arms, the trunk curling down to the left towards a bowl held in one lower hand. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/vishnu/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-vishnu-and-shri-on-garuda.jpg Vishnu and Shri Supported by Garuda Unknown Indian sculptor, Vishnu and Shri Supported by Garuda, c. 1000 CE. A carved stone group: a crowned multi-armed god and a smaller seated female figure ride on the shoulders of a kneeling winged bird-man, whose spread wings frame the pair. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/garuda/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-vishnu-and-shri-on-garuda.jpg Vishnu and Shri Supported by Garuda Unknown Indian sculptor, Vishnu and Shri Supported by Garuda, c. 1000 CE. A carved stone group: a crowned multi-armed god and a smaller seated female figure ride on the shoulders of a kneeling winged bird-man, whose spread wings frame the pair. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/narasimha/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-yoga-narasimha.jpg Yoga Narashimha, Vishnu in his Man-Lion Avatar Unknown Indian sculptor, Yoga Narashimha, Vishnu in his Man-Lion Avatar, c. 1250 CE. A carved stone figure of a lion-headed man seated cross-legged in meditation, a broad strap bound around the knees and body, with a maned head turned frontally towards the viewer. https://mythospedia.com/hindu-classical/sudarshana-chakra/ https://mythospedia.com/art/hindu-personification-of-the-discus.jpg Personification of the Discus Unknown Indian sculptor, Personification of the Discus, c. 670 CE. A carved stone figure standing in front of a large upright wheel that fills the whole background of the panel, the spokes radiating out behind the figure's head and shoulders.