Classical Deities Artwork

A collection of engravings depicting classical deities, including the moon goddess Luna and representations of Venus and Mercury, characterized by graceful poses and intricate attire.

Middle, from the cycle: virtues and disadvantages; Aldegrever, Heinrich (Ca 1502-1555 cars 1561); 1552 (1st edition) (1552-00-00-1561-00-00);
Middle, from the cycle: virtues and disadvantages; Aldegrever, Heinrich (Ca 1502-1555 cars 1561); 1552 (1st edition) (1552-00-00-1561-00-00);
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Hope; Payen (Flow. Ca 1850), Bartolozzi, Francesco (1727-1815), Tessari & Co (London, Paris; Publisher; Fl. Ca 1788-1850); 1810-1850 (1810-00-00-1850-00-00);
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Slager, 1660 print A butcher, walking to the left, with a stick over the shoulder on which animal skins hang. He has a knife in the left hand. Two cats next to him. Italian fresh in the lower margin. The print is part of an album. paper etching street-trader. butcher, slaughterman. crafts and industries (+ skins, fur, leather, etc. ~ crafts, industries, agriculture). cat. 'cris de Paris', cries of London, etc.
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Music, plate 26 from Arts and Sciences 1460-1470 Italy. The deck of fifty so-called Tarocchi are not tarots in the modern, fortune-telling sense, nor were they intended as playing cards. No cut-out impressions mounted for play are known, and they lack the suits and numbers of a regular deck. Instead, these delicately engraved didactic allegories are grouped in five numbered ranks describing the workings of the spheres of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the cosmos, and the heavens in order of increasing significance, and offer a didactic sequence to educate courtly youths or possibly university students, who could have used them as flashcards or a pamphlet.. Engraving, with brush and light yellow metallic wash, on ivory laid paper . Master of the E-Series Tarocchi
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Cupid on a lion. Artist: After Giulio Romano (Italian, Rome 1499-1546 Mantua); Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607-1677 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 3/8 in. × 6 in. (11.1 × 15.2 cm) cut into iamge at sidesand fractionally at bottom. Series/Portfolio: From a series of six plates, etched by Hollar after drawings by Giulio Romano from the collection of Nicolas Lanier, designs for stucco medallions at the Palazzo Te in Mantua; see New Hollstein 1182-1187.. Date: 1652.Cupid riding a lion, walking in profile to right, holding a band wound around its neck and forehead. From a series of six plates, etched by Hollar after drawings by Giulio Romano from the collection of Nicolas Lanier, designs for stucco medallions at the Palazzo Te in Mantua. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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A Nymph and a Bear Playing a Bagpipe Woman with a Bear Playing Bagpipes Kunnstbüchlein Frankfurt: Feyerabend, 1578. 1578. Amman, Jost, 1539-1591. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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Gay bulla; Quis Evadet. Putto leaned against a skull. In his right hand a pipe with which he blows bubbles, a shell in his left hand, behind him a keg that smell rises. At the bottom of the show the words 'Quis Evadet' And among the show four lines of Latin.
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Ein Kentaur, Centaurus, Centauri, Zentaur, ein Mischwesen der griechischen Mythologie aus Pferd und Mensch, historisches Rom, Italien, digitale Reprod...
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Young man with Death. Artist: Meester van het Amsterdamse Kabinet. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1475 - 1499. Measurements: h 124 mm × w 76 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Sculpture group with pan that Daphnis learns to play flute, anonymous, 1584 print Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipe. homosexual love
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Flat decoration with putto, seen on the back.splach decoration. A putto gets over a banderle on which the alphabet is written. Shaded background.
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This 1594 copper engraving by Hendrick Goltzius depicts sheep escaping, showing dynamic movement and rural subject matter in detailed line work.
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Euterpe ca. 1540-45 Léon Davent French. Euterpe 337124
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Putto with pierced heart; Putti that depict God's Word; Verbum dei. Medallion with a putto with a heart pierced by an arrow. In the background the paradise with EVA that offers the forbidden fruit to Adam. The print has a frame with a Bible quote from PS. 50 in Latin.
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Jan Sadeler I, Saint Francis, 1580, engraving on laid paper.
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Personification of painting on a pedestal, Arnold Houbraken, 1688 - 1700 print Personified painting is on a piercing stable on which the serial title in six lines in Dutch. She cannot speak through the cloth that is bound in front of her mouth, so that one has to see what she portrays. Behind her is the ignorance with donkey ears, which blindly taunts painting. Behind ignorance the envy. However, painting shows her work on the personalized speech. Four putti surround the pedestal. Title print of part 2 of a series of prints with emblems, in total consisting of three parts with 23, 17 and 20 prints respectively. Dordrecht paper etching / engraving 'Picture', Symbolic Repres invention, Allegories and Emblems ~ Painting; 'Painting' (Ripa). Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Envy; 'Envy' (Ripa) ~ Personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Reason; 'Raying' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept repriation from female figures). Ignorance; 'Ignorance', 'ignorance of all things', 'ignorance in a
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Two putti reveal and laurels a coat of arms. Two putti reveal and laurels a coat of arms with three leaf motifs. On the right a winch.
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Design for a print, Alexis at the lime tree Designs for illustrations for Le Deserteur by Jean-Michel Sedaine (series title), draughtsman: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1770 - 1775, paper, pen, brush, h 90 mm × w 50 mm
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September, depicted as a man sacrificing a lizard, representing harvest. Illustration from supplement to 'L'antiquité expliquée et representée en figures'; (vols. 1-15, Paris, 1719-1724) by Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, (1655 1741), a French Benedictine monk. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, He is regarded as one of the founders of modern archaeology.
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Composition of three faces and the head of a ram, anonymous, 1590 - 1660 print Composition of two faces of bearded men, the face of a younger man and the head of a ram. Caught in an oval. Italy paper engraving / etching anthropomorphic ornament. face. ram's head ~ ornament
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Print made by John Smith, 1652-1743, British, Cupid, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, blued white, laid paper.
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Sanguine temperament, the four different temperaments, documented on human types. The four temperaments are the sanguine, the choleric, the phlegmatic and the melancholic temperament, 1767, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe
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Sculpture group with pan that Daphnis learns to play flute, anonymous, 1584 print Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipe. homosexual love
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Sant Celoni. Grabado. Museum: BIBLIOTECA DE CATALUNYA.
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An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned sic since my Deliverance out of Captivity' is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier on the South Asian island now best known as Sri Lanka and provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Ceylonese life. Knox spent 19 years on Ceylon after being taken prisoner by King Rajasimha II.
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Woman with a book in a human skeleton, a head and a bone, Jan van Vianen, After Romeyn de Hooghe, 1697 print A woman has a book on lap with anatomical images. Next to her on the table is a open human head and a bone. Behind her a bookcase and a human frame. Utrecht paper etching / engraving (human) skeleton. physiology and anatomy
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Passe, Crispijn van de (I), AB, unknown, Bathing Susanna, verso right - stamped, Susanna sits on the edge of a fountain and wants to take a bath. In the background the two elders who are peeping at her. In the margin a two-line caption in Latin., print, prints, height 235 mm, width 158 mm, 1564 - 1637, print maker, printmaker, 1574 - 1637, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design of, writer, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Native American woman of Tierra del Fuego, South America. In sealskin cloak, skirt with belt, necklace and bracelets of shells, leather shoes, her body painted in red. Holding a basket of fish. Perhaps of the extinct Yahgan or Selk'nam people. Sauvagesse de la Terre de Feu. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.
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La Luxure (Lust), From Les Péchées Capitaux (The Deadly Sins) ca. 1620 Jacques Callot French. La Luxure (Lust), From Les Péchées Capitaux (The Deadly Sins). Les Péchées Capitaux. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). ca. 1620. Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure). Prints
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Bacchant sitting on a leopard, surrounded by three boys and a Sater; Putti and Saters. .
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Bust of ruggiero; Backgiero; Characters from 'Orlando Furioso'. Bust of Ruggiero, a character from Ludovico Ariosto's epic 'Orlando Furioso'. On his head, he wears a helmet decorated with a braided motif, leaves, plumes of feathers and spines. At the top right the title and eight Italian fresh rules from the epic.
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Nude man holding flaming arrows, attributed to Zeus, 1783, Paris. Publisher, Molini et de Lamy. Arrows, Male nude in art
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Portrait of Frederik de Vries, Portrait of Frederik de Vries with the dog of Hendrick Goltzius. He was a son of the painter Dirck de Vries, who was a student of Hendrick Goltzius. Frederik gets ready to sit on the dog's back and holds a bird in his hand., Dog, Frederik de Vries, anonymous, 1597 - 1667, paper, engraving, h 240 mm × w 179 mm
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Vertumnus and Pomona.beide figures in half; Vertumnus bows her head to Pomona as if she whispers something in her ear.
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Statue of Bacchus on a tiger; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani I. Statue of Bacchus sitting on the back of a tiger. He holds a grape food in hand. In the middle of the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.
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Plate 64: Medea Restoring Aeson's Youth (Aesoni decrepito iuventam restituit Medea), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' 1606 Antonio Tempesta Italian. Plate 64: Medea Restoring Aeson's Youth (Aesoni decrepito iuventam restituit Medea), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555-1630 Rome). 1606. Etching. Prints
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Hercules. Baccio Bandinelli (after) (Italy, Florence, 1488-1560)Baccio Bandinelli (Italy, Gaiole in Chianti, 1493-1560). Italy, 1548. Prints; engravings. Engraving
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TRAIANO BOCCALINI Italian satirist - his portrait supported, appropriately enough, by a pair of satyrs. Date: 1556 - 1613
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Bacchus Met Glas, Jacob Matham, 1599 - 1600 print Haarlem paper engraving (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber
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Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Jerusalem, Plate 92, "What do I see!....", 1804 to 1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.
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. Mercury, standing in a niche, a caduceus in his left hand, a winged cap on his head and winged shoes at his feet. This print is part of a series of eight prints of classical gods, based on POLIDORO DA CARAVAGIO paintings on the facade of a Roman house, seen and named by Goltzius in Rome.
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Jerusalem, Plate 92, 'What do I see!....', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1804 to 1820, Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm) and Plate: 8 x 5 3/4 inches (20.3 x 14.6 cm), arch, clouds, gown, heads, literary theme, religious and mythological subject, seated, serpent, sky, snake, text, women
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Bliżej Kultury unknown
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Ganymede or Ganymedes, divine hero from Troy, kidnapped to be Zeus' cupbearer in Olympus. Young man in Phrygian cap and cloak over his shoulder attacked by an eagle (Zeus). From a fragment of an agate gem. Ganimede. Copperplate engraving by after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.
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Wood Engraving, Vignette; engraving and etching; 18 x 34 in (45.7 x 86.4 cm); 1945-200-256
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Copper engraving by Israhel van Meckenem depicting eleven naked children, showing human figures and anatomical details typical of the late 15th century.
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Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Pretre des Ysles de Sandwich'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper
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Card Number 8, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes ca. 1890 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Series G29 presents cut-outs from a tobacco advertising banner issued by Allen & Ginter between 1885 and 1890. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Banners are paper hangers with a metal binding at top and bottom edges. The popular size was about 30 inches long but a few measured over five feet in length...The tobacco firms were prolific advertisers using a constant procession of banners, especially to publicize their current insert card sets...The usual design illustrates the card pictures from the series inserted into tobacco packaging with a large appropriate center picture." Many consumers would cut up banners in order to "collect" the whole series of cards at once. Although series G29 is not listed in Burdick's "The American Card Catalog," he included notes in his own edition of the book, now included in the collection at
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Allegory on Death, Florens Schuyl, 1629 - 1669 print Death shows a newborn child who lies on the ground a text from which the Vanitas message speaks. paper etching / engraving symbols and personifications of Death
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The Labours of the Months: February by Italian master / National Gallery, London/ c. 1580/ Italy, Venetian School/ Oil on canvas/ Mannerism/ 13,6x10,6/ Genre
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9. To the love of the homeland (IT)