Egypt, 2nd century A.D., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, image via Wikimedia Commons courtesy of LACMA
Vitastjerna's dream from the Gutasaga with the three entwined snakes symbolizing Graip, Gute and Gunfjaun, with her at the bottom, Gotland, Sweden. Now in Fornsalen museum, Visby.
Buto, Cobra Goddess of Lower Egypt (also known as Ua Zit, Uatchit, Udjat, Wadjet, Wadjit, Edjo). She was portrayed as the Uranus cobra worn on the Pharaoh’s brow.
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(painting from the tomb of Nefertari, ca 1270 BC)
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Lady of Auxerre, a female statuette in the Daedalic style. Limestone with incised decoration, formerly painted, ca. 640–630 BC, Louvre Museum
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Statue of Isis - Persephone holding a sistrum, Temple of the Egyptian Gods, Gortyn, 180-190 A.C.
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Throning goddess, marble statue supposed to be Persephone, queen of the underworld, 480-460 BC, found in Taranto, Italy. (Berlin inventory number Sk 1761), Pergamon Museum, Berlin
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Rectangular, baked clay relief panel; modelled in relief on the front depicting a nude female figure with tapering feathered wings and talons, standing with her legs together; shown full frontal, wearing a headdress consisting of four pairs of horns topped by a disc; wearing an elaborate necklace and bracelets on each wrist; holding her hands to the level of her shoulders with a rod and ring in each; figure supported by a pair of addorsed lions above a scale-pattern representing mountains or hilly ground, and flanked by a pair of standing owls. Known as the "Burney Relief" or the "Queen of the Night".
British Museum
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Sarcophagus known as the "Muses Sarcophagus", representing the nine Muses and their attributes. Marble, first half of the 2nd century AD, found by the Via Ostiense, Louvre Museum
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Paul Manship, Brookgreen Gardens
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Academicism
1800s, Cleveland Museum of Art
An adaptation of the Greek goddess Diana or Roman goddess Artemis, goddess of the hunt, this winged fairy wears a British crown and a short skirt and carries a spear. Like Diana/Artemis, the stag is presented on her left. Her hair resembles that of other Hindu goddesses.
Marble by Bernardino Cametti, 1720. Pedestal by Pascal Latour, 1754. Bode Museum, Berlin., image via Wikipedia
Cornelis van Haarlem, 1562-1638, Minneapolis Institute of Art
2nd century AD, Archaeological Museum, Seville
Robert Burns, 1926, National Gallery of Scotland
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1867, Realism
Walter Crane, 1883, Neo-Romanticism
Francisco Solimena, 1705-1710, Walker Art Gallery
Luca Giordano, 1680, Baroque
Luca Giordano, 1680, Baroque
Karl Bryullov, 1849, Romanticism
Dosso Dossi, 1528
Peter Paul Rubens, 1639, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Titian, 1556-1559, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, National Gallery, London, UK
Venus-Hygieia. Roman, made in Asia Minor, about A.D.200, Getty Villa
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Statue of Pallas Athena outside the Austrian Parliament Building, Vienna
Roman copy of an original Greek sculpture of Pallas Athena
Gustav Klimt, 1898, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien
Pallas Athena standing on a globe, a spear in her left hand, a shield in her right
Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1520–27, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Detail from the statue of the "Piraeus Athena" in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (Athens). The work has been given to either Kephisodotos or Euphranor (4th century B.C.), or deemed to be a Hellenistic-era creation in classicizing style. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, November 14 2009.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1621-1622, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy, photo by Amanta Scott
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1621-1622, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy, photo: Amanta Scott
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1621-1622, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy, photo: Amanta Scott
Marble, Roman copy from the 1st century BC/AD after a Greek original of the 4th century BC, attributed to Cephisodotos or Euphranor. Related to the bronze Piraeus Athena; Louvre Museum, France, from Mattei collection
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey. Image via WikiArt
Ala, Igbo Goddess of the earth and fertility
Hans von Aachen, 1587, Brukenthal National Museum, image via WikiComons
Frederic Leighton, 1891, public domain
Evelyn De Morgan, c.1906, public domain
sculpture of Pachamama (Mother Earth) in the mountains surrounding Esteli. Image via ieu.greenclimate.fund ©gaborbasch
Demeter figurine - Museo Archeologico Regionale - Agrigento, © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 4.0
A marble statue of Demeter, National Roman Museum
Roman copy of 4th century BC Greek bust (National Roman Museum)
Anselm Feuerbach, 1875, Ceiling painting, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, image via Wikipedia
Joseph Werner the Younger, circa 1680, Art Institute of Chicago, image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Ugaritic relief on ivory of Mother Goddess Asherah, 14th century BCE. De Agostini/G. Dagli Orti/Getty Images
Rembrandt, 1632, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Persephone, Triptolemos, and Demeter on a marble bas-relief from Eleusis, 440–430 BC
Image from: The story of Greece : told to boys and girls (1914) by Mary Macgregor
photograph of a relief of Demeter in her horse drawn chariot with her daughter, Kore, and with rampant horses flanking the chariot. photo from Wikipedia
Tintoretto, c1546/1548, National Gallery of Art
“Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work is one of three known paintings from a cycle by Jacopo Tintoretto depicting the personifications of the four Seasons. Spring and Autumn are housed in other collections; there is no trace of Winter. All three of the surviving Seasons feature powerful figures combined with a decorative elegance that is especially prominent in Summer, in the undulating line of stalks of grain silhouetted against the sky, the lacy grape leaves and clustered grapes, and the exquisitely rendered birds.
Tintoretto’s Seasons were created to surround a central ceiling painting in the Casa Barbo a San Pantaleone, in Venice. That painting, the octagonal Allegory of the Dreams of Men (Detroit Institute of Arts), has a complicated network of symbols that, when considered together, comment upon the interaction of human dreams and desires, fortune, and the great cycles governing heaven and earth. The depiction of the Seasons surrounding the central allegory would have complemented the motif of cyclical change.” — National Gallery of Art
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874, Tate Gallery, London, image via Wikipedia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882
Anonymous, 2nd Half of 17th Century, oil, canvas, 176,2 x 132 cm, National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana, image via National Gallery of Slovenia
Alessandro Allori, 1570
Getty Centre, Museum East Pavilion, Gallery E101
Attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1610 and later attributed to Hendrick van Balen
Peter Paul Rubens, 1636 - 1637, Museo Nacional Del Prado
Luigi Basiletti, Accademia Clementina di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy
Ulpiano Checa, 1888, Madrid, Spain
Simone Pignoni, circa 1650, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
Demeter, enthroned and extending her hand in a benediction toward the kneeling Metaneira, who offers the triune wheat. Detail of the belly of an Apulian red-figure hydria, ca. 340 BC. image via Wikmedia Commons
Jean-Francois de Troy, 1735, via State Museum Fund from the Stroganov Palace Museum, Leningrad, 1930, Hermitage Museum
Pierre Brébiette, (1598-1642), Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne
unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikipedia Commons
Locri, Reggio Calabria, National Museum of Magna Graecia, image via Wikicommons
circa 680 and 640 BC, Walters Art Museum, image via Wikimedia Commons
Composite image of Hathor's most common iconography, based partly on images from the tomb of Nefertari, image from Wikipedia
Norval Morrisseau, 1976
Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, known as the creator of the Woodland School of art, depicted traditional stories with spiritual themes in his work. Read more
Norval Morrisseau © Estate of Norval Morrisseau
Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, known as the creator of the Woodland School of art, depicted traditional stories with spiritual themes in his work. Read more
Diego Rivera, 1926-27, Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico
Judy Chicago, 1983, image via WikiArt
1984, Judy Chicago
Painting on 18 mesh canvas by Judy Chicago with Lynda Healy;
needlepoint by Frannie Yablonsky.
40 1/2 x 61 1/2 in. (102.9 x 152.4 cm).
Sandro Botticelli, c.1484–86, Uffizi, Florence
Alexandros of Antioch, Between 130 and 100 BC, Louvre Museum, Paris, image via Wikipedia
Allegory of August: detail of a fresco by Cosimo Tura, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, 1469-1470. image via New World Encyclopedia
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
Salvador Dalí, 1936, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018, Art Institute Chicago
Gustave Moreau, c.1866, Symbolism
Odilon Redon, 1912, Symbolism
Arnold Böcklin, 1872, Symbolism: Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, US
Amedeo Modigliani, 1917
Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal
Charles Le Brun, 1642-1644
Oil on canvas
81.3 x 97.7 cm
Purchase, John W. Tempest Fund, inv. 1953.1082
In this painting by Le Brun, the Roman goddess of love Venus is seen anointing her kneeling son Aeneas before he fights Turnus for the possession of Rome. She holds the divine food, ambrosia and nectar she will apply to Aeneas’ lips so that he may join the pantheon of gods. At the left, the river god who has cleansed away Aeneas’ mortality looks on, and two nymphs peer out from the forest glade in the background. In the lower corners, putti (cherub) play with the arms of the god Vulcan forged for Aeneas at Venus’ behest (Virgil, Aeneid). This painting can be dated to Le Brun’s Roman period. Greatly influenced by Poussin, Le Brun followed him back to Rome, where they worked in close association until 1646, when Le Brun returned to France. Le Brun became one of the most powerful and influential artists of his time, and was entrusted with the decoration of the Château de Versailles for Louis XIV.
Edward Burne-Jones, 1871: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1864 - 1868, Romanticism: Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, UK
Titian, 1538, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Giorgione (completed by Titian), 1508 - 1510, High Renaissance: Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden, Germany
Poussin, c.1630, Classicism: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
Paul Delvaux, 1944, Tate Modern, London, UK
Annibale Carracci, c.1602, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Nicolas Poussin, 1626, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Artemisia Gentileschi, 1630, Baroque
Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485, National Gallery, London
View video: Caroline Campbell, The Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department discusses this painting: https://youtu.be/jNkHq6QXX30
Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael (Dutch, 1566 - 1638), 1604–1608, Oil on copper, 20.3 × 15.5 cm (8 × 6 1/8 in.), 83.PC.274
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Raphael, 1504 - 1505, High Renaissance: Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Hans Baldung, 1539, Northern Renaissance: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Sandro Botticelli, 1482, Uffizi Gallery
Peter Paul Rubens, 1635, Museo del Prado, Spain
Antonio Canova, 1813-16, Hermitage Museum
sculpture modelled after a painting by Antonio Canova, 1925, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Heinz Mack, 1965, Lynden Sculpture Garden
Maurice Denis, 1893, Post-Impressionism: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Nicolas Poussin, c.1630, Classicism: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Konstantin Korovin, 1887, Impressionism: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Giorgio de Chirico, 1973, Metaphysical art
Albrecht Durer, Northern Renaissance
Alphonse Mucha, 1920, Romanticism
Mikhail Vrubel, 1890, Abramtsevo, Russian Federation, Art Nouveau (Modern), Symbolism
Gustave Moreau, 1891, Symbolism: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Tintoretto, 1528 - 1594, Mannerism (Late Renaissance): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Paul Delvaux, 1943, Surrealism
Auguste Rodin, 1905, Impressionism
Constantin Brancusi, 1912, Expressionism
Constantin Brancusi, 1909, Expressionism
John William Godward, 1895, Neoclassicism
Bela Czobel, 1930, Expressionism
Henri Fantin-Latour, 1862, Symbolism: Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, c.1862, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, US
John Singer Sargent
1921
Odilon Redon, Symbolism
Konstantin Vasilyev, Symbolism
Arthur Rackham, illustration: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1869, Romanticism
Diego Velazquez, 1644-48, National Gallery, London, UK
Francois Boucher , 1751, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Amedeo Modigliani, 1971
Camille Corot , c.1873 - c.1874
Peter Paul Rubens, 1612 - 1615
Boris Kustodiev, 1925-6, Nizhny Novgorod State Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Guido Reni , 1621-1623
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Giambologna, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1879, Academicism
Eugene Delacroix, 1856 - 1863, Romanticism
Alexey Venetsianov, Romanticism
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Neoclassicism
Guiseppe Cesari, c.1602-3, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
Alexandre Jacques Chantron, 1842-1918
Francois Boucher , 1742, Louvre, Paris, France
Rembrandt, 1631
François Clouet, 1510-1572, São Paulo Museum of Art
Lucas Cranach the Elder, c.1518, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, US
Camille Corot, 1836
Peter Paul Rubens, 1638-1640, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Rembrandt, 1634
Titian, 1559, National Gallery, London, UK
Zinaida Serebriakova, 1916 - 1917
Jacopo Bassano, 1592, Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Unknown artist, 17th/18th, Palace Museum in Wilanów
Victor Wolfvoet, 1639-1652
Louis Galloche, 1725, Herrmitage Museum
Alessandro Turchi (1597–1649), Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Jacob Jordaens, 1640 , Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)
Hendrick van Balen (1575–1632), Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), circa 1560 and circa 1565: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Valerio Castello (1624–1659): Norton Museum of Art
Maurice Denis, 1908, Symbolism
Gustav Klimt, 1900-1907, Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings. The bottom portion of the Medicine picture, showing Hygieia
Alexander Handyside Ritchie, College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh
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Small statue of Hygieia. Mid-2nd century C.E., Archaeological Museum of Rhodes
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Statue (head) of the goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius, by the Greek sculptor Scopas (c. 395 BC – 350 BC). From the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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Hygieia fountain in the city hall courtyard, Hamburg, Germany
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Hygieia fountain in the city hall courtyard, Hamburg, Germany
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