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Mythology


Mythology



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Monsters

MONSTERS

Mythological Animals

MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS

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The Tapestry Weavers or The Fable of Arachne. Interior of the tapestry workshop of Santa Isabel; also the story of Arachne in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where Minerva competes with Arachne in weaving a tapestry. 1657 Canvas, 220 x 289 cm Inv.1173
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The Tapestry Weavers or The Fable of Arachne. Interior of the tapestry workshop...

Hercules and Omphale. Hercules is sold as a slave to Omphale, Queen of Lydia, to atone for the murder of Iphtios and the theft of the tripod of Delphi. The hero is forced to wear Omphale's clothes and jewelry. Copper, 24 x 19 cm Inv. 1126
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Hercules and Omphale. Hercules is sold as a slave to Omphale, Queen of Lydia,...

Hercules drives Pan from the bed of Omphale. Hercules and Omphale have exchanged clothes: Pan seeks Omphale under her silken robes and is rudely expelled by Hercules, while Omphale sleeps on. Oil on canvas, 150 x 190 cm Inv.ABJ 1607
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Hercules drives Pan from the bed of Omphale. Hercules and Omphale have exchang...

Saturn devouring one of his sons. From the series of "Black paintings". Oil on canvas (1819-1823) 146 x 83 cm Inv. 763
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Saturn devouring one of his sons. From the series of "Blac...

Ulysses deriding Polyphem. Ulysses flees with his companions, while Polyphem throws rocks at their ships without hitting them. Oil on canvas
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Ulysses deriding Polyphem. Ulysses flees with his companions, while Polyph...

Beatrice addresses Dante from the carriage. Pen and watercolour, 37,2 x 52,7 cm
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Beatrice addresses Dante from the carriage. Pen and watercolour, 37,...

Saint George fighting the dragon. Around 1515. (The angel has been added later) Firwood,134,5 x 116 cm Inv.5669
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Saint George fighting the dragon. Around 1515. (The angel has been adde...

Hercules delivers Dejaneira from the centaur Eurytion. Copper, 33 x 44 cm Inv. 1147
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Hercules delivers Dejaneira from the centaur Eurytion. Copper, 33 x 44 cm...

Maenad and satyr with a basket of fruit. Canvas112,5 x 107,5 cm On loan from the Collection Schoenborn-Buchheim PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE SCHOENBORN-BUCHHEIM COLLECTION.
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Maenad and satyr with a basket of fruit. Canvas112,5 x 107,5 cm...

The Rape of Ganymede, 1636-38.Painted for the Torre de la Parada,the hunting lodge built by king Philip IV in El Pardo. Canvas,181 x 87 cm Cat.1679
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The Rape of Ganymede, 1636-38.Painted for the Torre de la Parada,the h...

La destruction de Troie et le jugement de Paris. The destruction of Troy and the judgement of Paris. Wood, 103 x 151 cm M.N.R.940
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La destruction de Troie et le jugement de Paris. The destruction of Troy...

The animals enter the Ark,1588.Memberger was court painter to Prince-Archbishop Wolf-Dietrich von Raitenau who ordered the five paintings on the Flood. Canvas,125,5 x 163 cm On loan from Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna KH 2531
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The animals enter the Ark,1588.Memberger was court painter to Prince-Archbi...