
Gods and Myths
GODS AND MYTHS
Non-classical
Mother and child, pre-Christian—see Virgin and Child, miscellaneous
Celtic
Nordic and German
Cisa
Abgötter der alten Sachsen (1570)
Nordic and German gods and heroes
Classical
Unidentified mythological representations
Census
Miscellaneous
Creation, and division of the universe by Jupiter, Pluto and Neptune
Mystery cults
Villa Item, Pompeii
Miscellaneous
Beginnings of idolatry
Falling idols
Early Greek idols
Cycles
Antique
Concesti amphora, St Petersburg
Gjölbaschi-Trysa reliefs, Vienna
Parthenon frieze, London
Groups of classical gods
Post-Antique
Miscellaneous
Anon., Palazzo del Corgna, Castiglione del Lago
Anon., Loseley Park (from Nonsuch Palace?)
Bonasone, Amorosi diletti degli dei
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, cod. 9242
Cesio, after Carracci, Farnese ceiling
Correggio, Camera di S. Paolo
Della Bella, Jeu des Fables
Fogolino, frieze from Ca'Impenta, Vicenza
Ghisi after Primaticcio
Luca Giordano, Palazzo Riccardi, Florence
Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Tè
Goltzius, after Polidoro Caldera
Cornelis van Haarlem, Four Falls
Johann Herold, Heydenwelt (1554)
Peruzzi, Farnesina and Castello di Belcaro
Piccolomini library
Rosso, Fontainebleau
Schiavone or Tintoretto, Modena
Tapestries
Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam
Jacopo Zucchi, Palazzo Ruspoli
Assembly of the gods
Census
Jupiter holding counsel to destroy the world
Miscellaneous
Feast of the gods
Miscellaneous
Giovanni Bellini
Acis
Acidalia
Achelous
Adonis
Census
Sarcophagus, cathedral sacristy, Bieda
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Sarcophagus, Louvre, Paris
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome
Cycles
Swanevelt
Miscellaneous
Tammuz-Adonis
Single Figure
Birth
From a tree
From a tree-like woman
Venus and Adonis
Before the chase
Adonis leaving
Discovered by Mars
Miscellaneous incidents
Death of Adonis
Venus not present
Venus discovering the dead Adonis
Venus mourning over the body of Adonis
Venus mourning at the tomb of Adonis
Adrastus—see Historia Thebana
Aegeus
Aeneas
Deification
Aeolus
Aesacus
Aesculapius
Census
Statue, Palazzo Reale, Caseria
Statue, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Museo Torlonia, Rome
Statue, Vatican Gardens, Rome
Headless statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Headless statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Bust, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Funerary relief, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Headless statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Aesculapius with Hygieia, relief, Louvre, Paris
Aesculapius with Hygieia, statues, Museo Archeologico, Turin
Statue, Borghese collection, untraced
Miscellaneous and unidentified
Flemish 16th-century chest
Heads and busts
Single figure, full length
With Hygieia
With Telesphorus
Apollo entrusts Chiron with infant Aesculapius
How Aesculapius came to Rome as a serpent
Miscellaneous
Votive reliefs
Aganippe
Aion
Census
Statue, location unknown
Miscellaneous
Alcestis
Census
Sarcophagus, formerly Villa Faustina, Cannes
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Rinuccini, Florence
Sarcophagus, S. Maria delle Vigne, Genoa
Miscellaneous
Alcmene
Alcon
Alcyone (and Ceyx)
Alektryon
Alope
Census
Alope and Theseus, sarcophagus, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Amalthea
Amazons
Census
Amazonomachies
Sarcophagus, Antikensammlung, Berlin
Relief, from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, British Museum, London
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Sarcophagus, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo de’ Conservatori, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Lancelotti, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome
Sarcophagus, Belvedere (no. 49), Vatican, Rome
Sarcophagus, Belvedere (no. 69), Vatican, Rome
Sarcophagus, Vatican/Palazzo Salviati/British Museum, Rome and London
Sarcophagus, San Simeon, California, USA
Sarcophagus, private collection, Venice
Sarcophagus relief, lost
Sarcophagus, broken
Single figure etc.
Amazon on a fallen horse, statue, Palazzo Patrizi, Rome
Statue, Wilton House
Amazon on a fallen horse, sarcophagus fragment (?), location unknown
Amazon with a fallen companion, terracotta plaque, lost
Statue, fragment, lost
Amazonomachies
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, BM, London
Temple of Apollo, Phigalia, BM, London
Louvre, Paris
Museo Archeologico, Florence
Medieval illuminations
Miscellaneous
Heads, busts and half-lengths
Single figure
On horseback
Not on horseback
Miscellaneous
Ambracia
Amor [Cupid]
Census
Sleeping
Statue, Uffizi, Florence (Mansuelli 108)
Statue, Uffizi, Florence (not in Mansuelli)
Funerary altar, Syon Lodge, Isleworth (?)
Relief, formerly Montecassino, lost
Statue, formerly Cesi and Ludovisi collections, Rome, now lost
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Stringing a bow
Statue, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Torso, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 80
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 121
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 170
Torso, lost—Rubens drawing
With down-turned torch—see GODS & MYTHS Genius of death
Miscellaneous
With dolphin, statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
With knee raised, statue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen (type)
Walking, original unidentified
With cloak of Mars, statue, Museo Archeologico, Florence
Cycles
Odoardo Fialetti, Scherzi d'Amore
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, cod. 11140
Classical art
Various attitudes
Sleeping
Resting
In reverie
Running
Flying
As musician
Various attributes
Blindfold
Claw-footed
With globe
With scales
With trident
With shield
Carrying/lighting a torch
With down-turned torch—see GODS & MYTHS Genius of death
With trophies
Miscellaneous
With birds, fish, animals
On an eagle
Playing/fighting with a goat
With unicorn
On horseback
With fish/dolphin
With lion
With snail
Miscellaneous
With bow and arrows
Sharpening arrows
Carving or stringing a bow
Drawing a bow
Shooting arrows at a couple
Shooting an arrow (miscellaneous)
With arrows, without bow
Breaking bow, or breaking arrows
Not shooting, miscellaneous
Allegories
The power of Amor
Triumph of Amor/Amor on his car/chariot
Amor as the child Hercules
Amor vincit omnia
Amor's power contested
Punishment of Amor
Crucifixion of Amor
Amor and Castitas or Temperantia
Amor and Time
Amor in the rain/in winter
Amor, sacred and profane (Eros and Anteros)
Cycle
Gillis van Schoor 1636
So-called Sacred and profane love, Titian
Amor, Jocus and Venus
Miscellaneous
Navis Amoris
Miscellaneous allegories
Amor and other deities
With Apollo
With Bacchus
With Mars
With nymphs and Graces
With Pan
With Vulcan
With other deities
Disarming of Amor
Education of Amor
Amor: miscellaneous iconographies
Foliate Amor
Without attributes--no distinctive iconography
In portraits and genre scenes
Sacrifice to/worship of Amor
Inscriptions
Adaptations
Amor and Psyche
Census
Relief, ‘letto di Policleto’, once owned by Ghiberti, now lost
Funerary relief, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno
Sarcophagus, S. Agnese, Rome
Relief, Casa di Rienzo, Rome
Statue (fragment), Museo Archeologico, Venice
Gem, formerly in the Palazzo Grimani, Venice
Sarcophagus, Psyche burning the weapons of Amor, National Museum, Warsaw
General
In classical art
Embracing
Triumph
Scenes which do not appear in Apuleius' narrative
Cycles
Florentine cassone, Simon collection, Berlin
Venetian cassone, Schmid collection, Munich
Coypel tapestries, Louvre
Boucher designs and Beauvais tapestries
Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Tè
Engravings after Giulio Romano
Gobelins tapestries, designs attributed to Giulio Romano
Daniel van den Dyck, Villa Venier, Brenta
Master of the die, after Coxie
Miscellaneous, after Coxie
Gerard Lanscroon, Harrowden
Perino del Vaga, Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome
Raphael, Farnesina, Rome
Taddeo Zuccaro, Castel Orsini, Bracciano
Miscellaneous
Story of Amor and Psyche: individual scenes
Psyche, worshipped as a goddess, incurs the anger of Venus
Psyche’s father consults the oracle
Psyche taken into the wilderness and carried off by Zephyrus
Psyche asleep in the garden; she wakes to discover Amor’s palace
Toilet of Psyche/Psyche served in the palace
Amor and Psyche as lovers (Psyche asleep)
Psyche in Amor's palace, visited by sisters/tormented by Furies
Psyche discovers Amor; Amor leaves her
Psyche saved from drowning
Psyche consoled by Pan
Psyche appealing to Venus/sent to underworld by Venus
Psyche in the underworld
Psyche woken by Amor
Psyche carried to Olympus by Mercury
Apotheosis of Psyche
Reconciliation of Psyche and Venus
Betrothal and wedding feast of Amor and Psyche
Miscellaneous episodes
Amoretti
Census
In a chariot race at the circus
Relief, Antikensammlung, Berlin, and British Museum, London
With animals
With two cocks and a pillar, gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Boar hunt, sarcophagus, Villa Medici, Rome
Sheep, relief, Villa Medici, Rome
On dolphins, gem, Hermitage, St Petersburg
With divine attributes
Cycle
Ravenna ‘thrones’, Milan and Florence
With attributes of Ceres
‘Throne’, Palazzo Arcivescovile, Ravenna
With attributes of Mars
Base, Uffizi, Florence
Base, Louvre, Paris
Base, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 104
Base, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 114
With attributes of Neptune
Relief, San Vitale, Ravenna
With attributes of Saturn
Relief, Louvre, Paris
With attributes of Saturn
Relief, Museo Archeologico, Venice
With Bacchic cult objects
Sarcophagus, S. Antonio, Padua
Sarcophagus, Louvre, Paris
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa
Sarcophagus, Villa Albani, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Mattei, Rome
Bacchanals
Octagonal cinerary urn, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Sarcophagus, Villa Medici, Rome
Relief, Villa Medici, Rome
Sarcophagus, Museo Chiaromonti, Vatican, Rome
Harvesting vintage
Mosaics, S. Costanza, Rome
Sarcophagus, S. Lorenzo fuori le mure, Rome
Sarcophagus, S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
Sarcophagus, Vatican, Rome
Sarcophagus, Cathedral, Salerno
With clipeus or portrait bust
Grave relief, Three Pigeons Inn, Richmond, London
Relief, with boys offering libations, Louvre, Paris
Sarcophagus, with Tellus, Oceanus, Apollo, Minerva, Campo Santo, Pisa
Sarcophagus, with Tellus, Oceanus, Ganymede, Amor, Psyche, Campo Santo, Pisa
Sarcophagus, with Amor, Psyche, Campo Santo, Pisa
Sarcophagus, with Tellus, Oceanus, S. Paolo a Ripa del Arno, Pisa
Sarcophagus, with Tellus, Oceanus, Amor, Psyche, S. Agnese, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Altieri, Rome
Sarcophagus, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Sarcophagus, with Minerva, Apollo, River Gods, Vatican, Rome
Sarcophagus, Cathedral, Salerno
Sarcophagus, Museo Doicesano, Volterra
With tablet
Sarcophagus, Pieve di S. Giorgio, Argenta, Ferrara
Sarcophagus, Museo Civico, Asolo
Sarcophagus, formerly Hever Castle, lost
Sarcophagus, Museo Civico, Pavia
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa
Sarcophagus, S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome
Sarcophagus, S. Francesco, Ravenna
Sarcophagus, SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Sarcophagus, S. Maria Assunta, Torcello, Venice
With garlands
Sarcophagus, formerly Palazzo Gherardesca, Florence—see Philoctetes
Sarcophagus, Pieve di S. Giuliano a Settimo, Florence
Sarcophagus, Duomo, Ivrea
Sarcophagus, formerly Pawlowsk, Russia: lost?
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa, Dütschke 70
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa, Dütschke 134
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa, Dütschke 149
Sarcophagus, formerly Galli collection, Rome
Sarcophagus, formerly Villa Madama, Rome
Sarcophagus, Villa Medici, Rome
Sarcophagus, unidentified
Miscellaneous
In sailing boats, sarcophagus, S. Pietro in Valle, Ferentillo
Holding vessels with fruit, relief, Baths of Diocletian, Rome (lost?)
With acanthus scrolls, relief, Trajan’s Forum, Rome—see ORNAMENT
Funerary altar, Museo Lapidario, Verona
Punishing Pan, sarcophagus, unidentified
With Victories, sarcophagus, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome, see VICTORIES
Early Christian sarcophagus, SS. Apostoli, Rome
Mosaics, S. Costanza, Rome, see AMORETTI HARVESTING VINTAGE
Cycles
Amoretti with animals
Cycle
As charioteers
As hunters
Fishing/angling
Riding/with goat
Riding/with dolphin, sea-monster etc.
Riding/with various animals and fabulous creatures
Amoretti harvesting vintage, and/or playing with Bacchic cult objects
Bacchanal of Amoretti
Amoretti playing
With satyr's mask
Various games
Amoretti dancing
Amoretti fighting
Amoretti: various activities and contexts
As musicians
Forging arrows
Kissing
Mourning
Measuring
Enacting the Meleager myth
Sacrificing
Being sold
Contest with nymphs of Diana
Practising the liberal arts/enacting the triumph of the arts
Triumph of purity
Amoretti holding objects
With garlands and vignettes
With flowers, fruit, plants
With trophies/weapons
Holding stemma, portrait or inscription
Holding/with various objects
Amoretti: various attitudes
On clouds/flying about
Miscellaneous
Amphiaraus
Amphion
Amphitrite
Without Neptune
With Neptune, without sea-gods
With Neptune, with sea-gods
Miscellaneous
Amymone
Census
Miscellaneous
Andromache
Angerona
Census
Bronze statuettes, late 15th-century Italian
Miscellaneous
Annona
Census
Contorniate, British Museum, London
Miscellaneous
Antaeus
Antiope
Apis
Apollo
Census
Statue, Belvedere, Vatican, Rome
Drawings after
Prints after
Statue after
Adaptations
Heads and busts
Gem, Hermitage, St Petersburg
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 27
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 97
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 134
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 178
Torsi or headless
Torso, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Torso, Sauroctonos, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Headless, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 89
Headless, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 225
Citharoedus: playing cithara or lyre
Statue, Villa Poggio-Imperiale, Florence
Gem, British Museum, London
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Charlottenhof, Potsdam
Statue, Palazzo Altemps, Rome
Statue, formerly Savelli collection, Rome
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
With other deities, satyrs, etc.
Apollo and Marsyas, gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Apollo and Diana, relief, Villa Medici, Rome
Apollo and Mercury, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Miscellaneous
Statue, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Triangular altar base dedicated to Apollo, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Statuette, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 51
Apollo Lykeios, Museo Archeologico,Venice, 101
Apollo Belvedere: copies and adaptations after 1600
Classical art
Heads only
Single figure, standing
Praxitelean types
Omphalos-Apollo
Single figure, seated
Apollo Citharoedus
Classical art
Post-classical art
Various types
Apollo Helios
Apollo Medicus
Apollo and the swans
With various attributes
Cults
Delphic oracle
Delos
Temple of Apollo, general
Miscellaneous cults
Miscellaneous
Apollo as protector of the arts
Apollo in various allegorical contexts
Single figure, post-classical art
Adaptations
Apollo and other deities
With Amor/Amoretti
With Diana
With the Graces
With Hercules
With Mercury
With the Muses
With Thetis
With Venus
With various deities
Cycles
Apollo: various myths
Guarding the herds of Admetus
With Coronis
With Hyacinth
With Leucothoe
With the serpent Python
Miscellaneous
Apollo and Daphne
Cycles
Daphne alone
Apollo finding Daphne asleep
Apollo trying to persuade Daphne
Daphne fleeing Apollo
Before transformation of Daphne
During transformation of Daphne
With Peneus
Without Peneus
Bernini, Galleria Borghese
Miscellaneous
End of the chase: Apollo embracing transformed Daphne
The rivers consoling Peneus
Apollo and Marsyas
Census—see Marsyas
Cycles
G. Sanuto
Sienese, 16th century
Miscellaneous
Knife grinder from the Apollo and Marsyas group
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Contest
With Midas
Without Midas
Flaying of Marsyas
Marsyas with human feet
Marsyas with goat feet
Arethusa
Census
Syracusan decadrachmon, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Heads, busts, single figure
Chased by Alpheus
Telling Ceres her story
Ariadne
Census
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Florence
Statue, Belvedere, Vatican, Rome
Single figure, not asleep
Abandoned on Naxos
Alone, asleep
Vatican type
Not Vatican type
Triumph of Ariadne (without Bacchus)
Adaptations
Arion
Aristeus
Astraea
Atalanta (of Arcadia)--see Meleager
Atalanta (of Boeotia)
Single figure
Atalanta wrestling with Peleus
Atalanta out-running her suitors
Hippomenes receives the apples from Venus
The race of Atalanta and Hippomenes
Hippomenes triumphant, with Atalanta
Atalanta and Hippomenes at the temple of Cybele
Ate
Athamas
Athena
Census
Full-length, standing
Torso, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Statue, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Etruscan bronze, Museo Archeologico, Florence
Statue, Liebighaus, Frankfurt-am-Main
Farnese, statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Louvre, Paris
Colossal statue, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Keystone from arch, Palazzo de’ Conservatori, Rome
Este, statue, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome, 63
Este, statue, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome, 403
Giustiniani, statue, Vatican, Rome
Headless statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Altoviti, statue, Boscoli drawing in Uffizi, location unknown
Cesi, statue, Carpi drawing and print, location unknown
Giustiniani, statue, drawings and print, location unknown
Headless, 16th-century Roman drawing, location unknown
16th-century bronze statuette, original unidentified
Drawing from circle of Puligo, original unidentified
Heads and Busts
Bust, intaglio, Charlottenburg, Potsdam, Berlin
Head, gem, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Bust, figured capital, Pisa
Head, statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 4
Bust, statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 112
Bust, statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 227
Head, statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 264-B
Head, statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 268
Various contexts
Athena and Neptune disputing over Athens, gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Altar, Museo Capitolino, Rome
As patroness of the arts, relief, Forum of Nerva, Rome
Driving a chariot/biga, gem, Kress collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Standing figure
Classical art: Promachos type
Classical art: general
Post-classical art
Palladium
Winged Athena
Seated figure
Heads, busts, half-lengths
In chariot
Various positions
Allegorical functions
Athena carrying the statue of Victory
Athena crowning
Minerva pacifica
Pallas pudica
Athena as wisdom/patroness of learning
Athena as patroness of the arts
Athena as virtue/with virtues/overcoming vice
Athena: miscellaneous allegorical functions
Athena and other deities or heroes
With Cybele
With Hercules
With Hygieia
With Mars
With Marsyas
With Mercury
With Neptune (contest for patronage of Athens)
With miscellaneous deities
Athena: myths
Cycles
Birth of Athena
Athena and Arachne
Athena invents clothing
Athena visits Envy
Miscellaneous
Sacrifice to/by Athena
Adaptations
Atlas
Census
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Atlas carrying the world
Atlas and Hercules
Atlas and Perseus
Atlas: manuscripts and texts
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Atreus
Census
Atreus Farnese, statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Miscellaneous
Attis
Census
Bust, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Miscellaneous
Aurora
Aurora and Cephalus
Aurora and Tithonus
Miscellaneous
Bacchus
Census
Bacchic sarcophagi
Bacchanal with sacrifice, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
Bacchic figures in niches, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Bacchic procession, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Finding of Ariadne, Blenheim Palace
Infancy of Bacchus, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Bacchic combat, Duomo, Cortona
Bacchic figures in niches, S. Pietro, Ferentillo
Indian triumph, Uffizi, Florence
Triumphal procession, S. Agostino, Genoa
Triumphal procession, Abbazia, Grottaferrata
Combat with Indians, Abbazia, Grottaferrata
Hever Castle—see Amsterdam
Bacchic procession; punishment of Pan, British Museum, London, 2298
Photos of the original
Drawings, prints, statues etc. after entire sarcophagus
Drawings, prints, statues etc. after front
Drawings, prints, statues etc. after left end
Drawings, prints, statues etc. after right end
Adaptations of the front
Adaptations of the left end
Adaptations of the right end
Duplicates and comparative material
Literature
Bacchus riding on a panther, County Museum, Los Angeles
Triumph of Bacchus, Palazzo Arcivescovile, Lucca
Bacchus and Silenus in chariots, Duomo, Naples
Bacchic revels, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Bacchus and Ariadne; Bacchic sacrifice, Arbury Hall, Nuneaton
Indian triumph, Louvre, Paris
Bacchanal, Louvre, Paris
Bacchus and Ariadne with centaurs, Campo Santo, Pisa
Strigillated, with Aldobrando bust portrait, Campo Santo, Pisa
Birth of Bacchus; finding of Ariadne, Campo Santo, Pisa
Bacchic procession, Campo Santo, Pisa
Infancy of Bacchus, University Museum, Princeton
Bacchic combat, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Bacchus and Ariadne with satyrs making wine, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Indian triumph, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Garlands held by fauns, with 14th-century tomb, S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
Hercules and Bacchic figures, Palazzo Mattei, Rome
Infancy of Bacchus, Palazzo Mattei, Rome
Bacchic procession, Villa Medici, Rome, A. 28
Bacchic procession, Villa Medici, Rome, A. 30
Bacchic procession, Villa Medici, Rome, A. 31
Finding of Ariadne, Villa Medici, Rome, A. 32
Bacchic sacrifice; finding of Ariadne, Villa Medici, Rome, A. 58
Indian triumph, Villa Medici, Rome, A. 59
Bacchic procession, Villa Medici, Rome, A. 68
Indian triumph, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Infancy of Bacchus, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome
Finding of Ariadne, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome
Indian triumph, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome
Bacchic procession, Villa Savoia, Rome
Bacchanal, Belvedere, Vatican, Rome
Finding of Ariadne, Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican, Rome
Bacchus and Ariadne pressing grapes, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome
Bacchic procession, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome
Bacchus riding on a panther, atrium, Cathedral, Salerno
Triumph of Bacchus, Cathedral, Salerno
With centaurs holding clipeus, Cathedral, Salerno
Bacchus and Ariadne, with satyrs making wine, Cathedral, Salerno
Fragment, Bacchus and maenad, Villa Votalarca, Treia
Bacchus and Ariadne, procession, Woburn Abbey, M. 61
Indian triumph, Woburn Abbey, M. 144
Lykurgos, Pan, Ariadne; lost, formerly Villa Aldobrandini, Rome
Dancing maenad and satyr; lost, formerly Villa Borghese, Rome
Bacchic procession; lost fragment of Berlin 851?
Bacchic symposium, unidentified lid
Finding of Ariadne?; unidentified
Bacchic reliefs
Bacchic figures, cinerary urn, Musée Calvet, Avignon
Education of Bacchus (?), Antikesammlung, Berlin
Bacchanal, round altar, Merseyside County Museum, Liverpool
Dionysus and Icarius, British Museum, London
Bacchus supported by a satyr, Prado, Madrid
Bacchanal, Neo-Attic puteal, Prado, Madrid
Bacchic scenes, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Dionysus and Icarius, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Procession, Krater, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Dancers, Puteal, Louvre, Paris
Bacchanal, Borghese Vase, Louvre, Paris
Bacchic figures, altar, Louvre, Paris
Revellers, Krater, Campo Santo, Pisa
Bacchic figures, base, Newby Hall, Ripon
Bacchus and Silenus, Villa Albani, Rome
Bacchic scenes, Villa Borghese, Rome
Dancers, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
Bacchic figures, S. Maria in Monterone, Rome
Sacrifice, Villa Medici, Rome
Colossal mask, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Finding of Ariadne etc., vessel, Museo Torlonia, Rome
Bacchic revellers, Belvedere, Vatican, Rome
Bacchic scenes, poss. not Census, Sala dei Busti, Vatican, Rome
Bacchic figures, funerary altar, Hermitage, St Petersburg
Bacchic scene, Cathedral, Salerno
Bacchic figures, base, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 22
Bacchic figures, base, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 26
Bacchic figures, base, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 26a
Bacchus and Ariadne, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 110
Bacchic symposium, Ara Grimani, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 263
Silver cup, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Bacchic figures, vase, lost, Dosio album, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, 31r-32r
Infancy of Bacchus, terracotta, lost, Codex Pighianus, no. 384
Erotic scene (?), lost, Codex Coburgensis, fol. 138
Harvesting vintage, lost, Codex Pighianus, fol. 302v
Finding of Ariadne, lost, Codex Coburgensis, fol. 174
Bacchic gems
Rustic symposium, Beverley collection
Finding of Ariadne, Museo Archeologico, Florence, 14455
Finding of Ariadne, Museo Archeologico, Florence, 14458
Triumph, Museo Nazionale, Naples, 25833
Infant Bacchus with nymphs, Museo Nazionale, Naples, 25840
Finding of Ariadne, Museo Nazionale, Naples, 25852
Infant Bacchus with satyr, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Satyr flanked by Maenad and seated nymph, lost?, formerly Grimani collection
Cycles
Census
Bacchus: heads, busts and torsi
Torso restored as Bacchus, Villa Borghese, Rome
Head, Palazzo Orsini, Rome
Torso, Colección Alba, Seville
Bust, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 11
Bust, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 38
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice,127-B
Bust, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 248
Bacchus: full-length
Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen
Restored, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Venice
Bacchus supported by a satyr, Uffizi, Florence
With grapes, Museo Nazionale, Naples, 263
Bacchus and Amor, Museo Nazionale, Naples, 6307
Louvre, Paris: currently at Versailles
With panther, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Leaning on satyr, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 119 [not Census]
Statuette, Museo Nazionale, Venice, 214
Statuette, Museo Nazionale, Venice, 215
Lost and destroyed statues
Seated Bacchus, destroyed by fire, formerly Uffizi, Florence
Bacchus playing with a panther (?), lost
Bacchus Altoviti, not traced
Bacchus Belvedere, lost?
Torso, at Cerchel in 1898, not traced
Single figure
As infant
As boy or adolescent
Nude, beardless, standing
Holding cup, bowl or jug
Michelangelo and Sansovino
Miscellaneous
Holding thyrsos
Without cup, bowl, jug or thyrsos
Clothed, beardless, standing
Bearded
Horned
Seated, kneeling or reclining
Birth and infancy
First birth, from Semele
Second birth, from Jupiter’s thigh
Entrusted to the nymphs of Mt Nysa by Mercury
With nymphs/satyrs (without Mercury)
Miscellaneous
Myths
Bacchus and Erigone
Bacchus and Vulcan—see Vulcan
Bacchus and Midas
Bacchus and the pirates
Death and resurrection of Bacchus
Triumph of Bacchus
With elephants (Indian triumph)
Without elephants, with panthers/tigers/lions
Without elephants, without panthers/tigers/lions
Bacchus and Ariadne
Bacchus finding Ariadne
Ariadne awake
Ariadne asleep
Wedding feast of Bacchus and Ariadne
Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne
Crown of Ariadne turned to stars
Miscellaneous
Types
Riding in a chariot
Holding up grapes
On a barrel
Drunk
Bacchus Citharoedus
Winged
Bacchus-Helios
With/riding on animals etc.
Bull
Goat
Horse
Monster
Panther
Miscellaneous
Bacchus with other figures
Amoretti
Ampelus
Ceres
Genius
Horae
Nymphs
Peasants
Satyr/faun
Silenus
Venus
Miscellaneous
Sacrifice to Bacchus
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Bacchic games
Bacchic dance
Bacchanal
Specific types
Classical art
The Andrians
Bacchanal of children—see Amoretti
Bacchic symposium or feast
Bacchanal with Bacchus and/or Silenus
Bacchanal in which neither Bacchus nor Silenus is prominent
Bacchic adaptations
Bacchantes (cf. Maenads)
Census (see also Bacchic sarcophagi, reliefs and gems)
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 95
Head of Bacchante or Ariadne, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 181 (now Ca d’Oro)
Heads and busts
Single figure
Two or more
Turned into trees
Adaptations
Baucis—see Philemon and Baucis
Bellerophon
Census
Sarcophagus, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Cycles
With Pegasus and Chimaera
With Pegasus, without Chimaera
With Chimaera, without Pegasus
Miscellaneous
Bellona
Bonus Eventus
Boreas
Branchus
Brinto
Busiris
Byblis
Cadmus
Cycles
Consulting the oracle, he follows a heifer
A dragon devours the followers of Cadmus
Cadmus kills the dragon
He sows the dragon’s teeth
He brings the alphabet to Greece
With Harmonia
Caenis (Caeneus)
Callirrhoë
Callisto
Cycles
Single figure and miscellaneous (not Diana and Callisto)
Jupiter (in the guise of Diana) and Callisto
Camerina
Canopus
Capaneus
Caryatid
Castor and Pollux--see Dioscuri
Cecrops (cf. Erichthonius)
Celeus
Centaurs
Census
Centauromachy, sarcophagus, Sala delle Muse, Vatican, Rome
Centaur carrying a basket, gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Centaurs, relief, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Centauromachy, sarcophagus, lost, formerly Museo Peruzzi, Florence
Centauromachy, lost formerly Della Valle collection, Rome
Centauromachy, Duomo, Cortona—see Bacchic sarcophagi
Single figure
Specific works
Pair of Centaurs by Aristeas and Papias, Capitoline, Rome
12th century ivory box, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Botticelli, Camilla and the Centaur
With bow
Without bow
Battles of Centaurs and Lapiths
Specific works
Bassae, Temple of Apollo
Olympia
Parthenon
Michelangelo
Piero di Cosimo
With rape of Hippodamia
Without rape of Hippodamia
Centaur battles
Miscellanous, between centaurs and lapiths/humans
Centaurs fighting other centaurs
Various actions
Abducting women
Attacked by animals/monsters
Hunting
Playing musical instruments
Various iconographies
Chiron
Caineus and the centaurs
Centaurs with Amor
Winged centaurs
Centaur family
Centauresses
In decoration
In herbals
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Cephalus and Procris
Cycles
Miscellaneous scenes
Death of Procris
Cerastae
Cerberus (cf. Pluto)
Census
Miscellaneous
Cercopians
Ceres
Census
Full-length statue, Antikensammlung, Berlin
Full-length statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Figured capital, Pisa
Colossal bust, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Full-length statue, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
Full-length statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Full-length statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Full-length statue, not traced, formerly Cesi collection
Ceres and Triptolemus (?), gem, lost
Classical art
Single figure
With torch
With cornucopia, without torch
Without cornucopia, without torch
In her dragon chariot
Worship of Ceres
Triumph of Ceres
Stories
Ceres mocked
Teaching agriculture
Learning from the nymph Cyane of the rape of Proserpina
With Demophon
With other figures
Proserpina
Amor/Amoretti
Attendant nymphs
Pan or satyrs
Other deities
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Cernunnos--see Celtic Gods and Myths
Chaos
Charon
Census
Miscellaneous
Chione
Chryseis
Chryses
Cinyras (daughters of)
Circe (see also Odyssey)
Clytie
Comus
Core--see Proserpina
Coronis of Larissa
Coronis of Phocis
Corybantes
Census
Gem, formerly Grimani coll.
Miscellaneous
Cyane
Cybele
Heads and busts
Single figure
Without lions
Census
Casino of Pius IV, Vatican, Rome
Miscellaneous
With lions
In lion-chariot
With Attis
Census
Altar, Villa Albani, Rome
Funerary inscription, Villa Albani, Rome
Votive relief, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Miscellaneous
With other deities/personifications
In narrative contexts
Ritual and cult
Adaptations and miscellaneous
Cycnus, son of Apollo
Cycnus, son of Sthenelus
Cydippe
Cygnus, son of Neptune
Cyparissus
Daedalus
Daedalus and Icarus
Census
Antique gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Sarcophagus, lost, Codex Pighianus fol. 31v
Before the fall of Icarus
The fall of Icarus
After the fall of Icarus
Miscellaneous
Danaë
Single figure, with or without shower of gold
With shower of gold
With Jupiter in human form
With Amor/Amoretti, without nurse
With nurse
With her infant son
Adaptations
Danaides
Daphnis
Census
Marble statue, Uffizi, Florence
Miscellaneous
Demogorgon
Demeter—see Ceres
Deukalion and Pyrrha
Diana
Census
Statue, Villa Poggio-Imperiale, Florence
Altar, Louvre, Paris
Torso, ‘Zingara’, Louvre, Paris
Headless torso, statue, Villa Borghese, Rome
As huntress, statue, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Discovering Endymion (?), statue, Vatican, Rome
Diana Lucifera, statue, Vatican, Rome
Headless draped statue, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome
Torso, Museo di Antichità, Turin
Archaistic statuette, Museo Archeologico, Venice
With dog, unidentified statue, De Vos sketchbook, Amsterdam
Huntress with dog, present whereabouts unknown, Sotheby’s, London, 11 Dec 1983
Running, unidentified, miscellaneous
Statue, unidentified, formerly ‘in Capitolio’, Franzini, Icones
Huntress with dog, unidentified, formerly ‘in musaeo Garimberti’, Cavalieri
Huntress, unidentified, formerly in S. Croce collection, Franzini, Icones
Huntress with dog, unidentified, formerly in S. Croce collection, Franzini, Icones
Statue base, with animals, lost, Girolamo da Carpi drawing
Diana of Ephesus
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, lost, in the dei Rossi collection ca. 1515-1517
Unidentified and work-in-progress
Cycle
Single figure
Diana of Ephesus
Heads and busts
Fragments and torsoes
As Luna
Holding a torch (Lucifera)
Holding a spear (not huntress)
Miscellaneous
Hunting
Single figure
With her nymphs
After the chase
Asleep
Awake
With gods, goddesses etc.
Amor/Amoretti
Apollo
Goddesses
Gods
Nymphs and fauns
Pan--see Pan and Luna
Various contexts
Asleep, surprised by satyrs
In a shooting competition
In a chariot
On a stag or centaur
With young virgins
Diana and Actaeon
Cycles
Specific image: Titian, Edinburgh
Actaeon entirely human
Actaeon with human head, sprouting antlers
Actaeon with stag’s head, but human arms
Actaeon with stag’s head and forepaws
Actaeon as human-headed stag
Actaeon as stag
Diana and Callisto
Specific image: Titian, Edinburgh
Miscellaneous (cf. Callisto)
Adaptations
Various myths
Adoration and sacrifice
Votive reliefs
Portraits historiés
Adaptations
Miscellaneous
Dido--see Aeneid
Diomedes
Census
Diomedes with the Palladium, confronting Ulysses
Gem, Arundel collection, Marlborough
Diomedes with the Palladium, not confronting Ulysses
Gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Glyptothek, Munich
Diomedes confronting Ulysses
Miscellaneous
Dioscuri
Census
Dioscuri of Monte Cavallo
Photos of the group ssculpture on the Quirinal, Rome
Drawings and engravings before 1530
Drawings and engravings after 1530
Bronzes, medals etc.
Dioscuri: not Monte Cavallo type
With horses
Relief, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Seasons sarcophagus, Genoa
Sculptural group, Campidoglio, Rome
Sarcophagus of Publius Vibius Marianus, via Cassia, Rome
Without horses
Pediment statues from temple at Naples, destroyed ca 1632
Single statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
With horses
Monte Cavallo type
Not Monte Cavallo type
Heads and busts
On foot, without horses
As infants (cf. Leda)
Stories (cf. Leucippides)
As patrons of navigation
Dirce
Census
Group sculpture, Farnese bull, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Miscellaneous
Dryope
Echo
Eirene
Census
Statue, Roman copy of Kephisodotos’ Eirene, Villa Margherita, Rome
Miscellaneous
Eleusinian deities
Elysian fields
Encelades
Endymion
Census
Single figure and miscellaneous
Diana and Endymion
Diana at the tomb of Endymion
Eos--see Aurora
Epimetheus
Epona
Erichthonius (cf. Cecrops)
Erigone (see also Bacchus)
Erysichthon
Europa
General, and specific works
Classical art
Without the bull
Bull in the vicinity
Garlanding the bull
Kissing or stroking the bull
Reclining on the bull
Sitting on the bull
Standing by or kneeling on the bull
Adaptations
Eurydice--see Orpheus
Fates--see Moirai
Faun--see Hercules and Omphale, Pan, Satyr
Fortuna--see SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
Flora
Census
Flora Farnese I, Museo Nazionale, Naples, inv. 6409
Flora Farnese II, Museo Nazionale, Naples, inv. 5978
Flora (as restored), Louvre, Paris
Single figure
Flora Farnese I, copies after 1600
Not copies after Flora Farnese I
With Zephyrus
With other figures
Adaptations
Furies
Galatea (see also Acis, Polyphemus)
Ganymede
Census
Statue, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Relief on funerary cippus of L. Statius Asclepiades, Villa Albani, Rome
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Sarcophagus relief, lost, formerly ‘in domo Corneliorum’
Without Jupiter/eagle
With eagle, not being carried away
Rape, with eagle taking off
Rape, with eagle airborne
With Jupiter in human form
Adaptations
Garga
Genius
Census
Genius of Death
Relief from funerary altar, Villa Albani, Rome
Funerary relief, city walls, Verona
Funerary relief, Museo Lapidario, Verona
Relief from a strigilled sarcophagus, Museo Diocesano, Volterra
Miscellaneous
Drawings, Girolamo da Carpi
Drawing, Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples, inv. no. 5975
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples, inv. no. 6053
Without wings
With wings
Allegories
Genius of death
Geryon
Giants
Census
Statue, Dying giant, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, Head of a giant, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Gigantomachia
Specific works
Pergamon Altar
Palazzo del Tè
Giants with serpent legs
Giants with human legs
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Giuoco (see also Amor, Jocus and Venus)
Glaucus, marine god
Glaucus and Scylla
Miscellaneous
Glaucus, son of Minos
Gorgo (see also Graeae)
Census
Gem, British Museum, London
Tazza Farnese, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Drawings, Cyriacus of Ancona material
Gorgoneion
Beardless
Tongue not protruding between fangs
Winged
Not winged
Tongue protruding between fangs
Bearded
Tongue protruding between fangs
Tongue not protruding between fangs
Triskelion type
Whole figure
Myth of Gorgo/Medusa (see also Perseus)
Adaptations
Graces
Census
Relief, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Group sculpture, Siena, Piccolomini library
Relief group, Hecateion, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Relief, lost: del Bufalo fountain
Relief, lost: with flanking jars
Miscellaneous
Unaccompanied
In pose similar to Siena group sculpture
Not in pose similar to Siena group sculpture
With flanking jars
Dancing
Standing round a column/as caryatids
Accompanied
By Amor/Amoretti
By Mercury
By other figures
Adaptations
Graeae
Hades
Census
Miscellaneous
Halcyon--see MAGIC AND SCIENCE: Kingfisher
Harpies
Harpocrates (see also Angerona, Horus, Isis)
Census
Statuette, Louvre, Paris
Statuette, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
Figured capital, Pisa—see ANTIQUITIES figured capitals
Miscellaneous
Hebe (Juventus)
Hecate
Census
Miscellaneous
Helen (of Sparta)
Heliades (see also Phaeton)
Helicon (see also Muses, Parnassus, Pegasus)
Helle (see also Phrixus)
Hercules
Census
Single figure
Heads and busts
Gem, Florence, Museo Archeologico
Gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Colossal statue, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Venice, Ca d’Oro (photo missing)
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Reclining or sitting
Reclining, statue, Rome, Museo Chiaramonti
Sitting, Roman medals
Sitting, Rome, Palazzo Altemps
Sitting, work in progress
Standing, holding club
Statue, Florence, Pitti
Relief, Arch of the Argentarii, Romw
Statue, Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Gilt bronze statue, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
Statue (headless), lost, formerly Julius III collection , Rome?
Statue, lost, Girolamo da Carpi drawing
Standing, leaning on club
Statue, Palazzo Reale, Caserta
Statue, Augusteum, Dresden
Statue, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Statue, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, ‘Hercules Farnese’, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Villa Borghese, Rome
Statue, untraced
Standing, miscellaneous
Hercules Musagetes, cameo, formerly Rogier collection, Paris
With other figures
Hercules and Amor, gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples 25863
Hercules and two amoretti, gem, formerly Marlborough collection
Hercules and Echidna, sarcophagus fragment, Villa Albani, Rome
Hercules and Telephus, statue, Vatican, Rome
Hercules with other deities, sarcophagus, Palazzo Maffei, Rome
The Choice of Hercules
Stucco relief visible in XV + XVI centuries on grave near Thermae of Caracalla
Infant Hercules
Standing
Statue, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Strangling serpents
Statue, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, Museo di Antichità, Turin
The drunken Hercules
Statue, Museo di Antichità, Parma
Supported by a satyr, statue, Wilton House
Bronze (type), pissing, ‘Hercules mingens’
Labours of Hercules
Cycles
Sarcophagus, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Terracotta reliefs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Sarcophagus, Villa Borghese, Rome
Altar relief, Capitoline Museum, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Corsini, Rome
Altar, Lateran Museum, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Torlonia, Rome
Sarcophagus, Belvedere, Vatican, Rome
Sarcophagus, lost
Individual
Nemean lion
Greek coins
Sarcophagus, S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
Relief, Villa Medici, Rome
Statue, location unknown
Lernaean hydra
Statue, lost
Arcadian stag
Relief, San Marco, Venice
Apples of the Hesperides
Relief, Villa Albani, Rome
Statue, British Museum, London
Cerberus
Gem, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Exploits of Hercules
Hercules and Antaeus
Statue, Pitti palace, Florence
Loves
Hercules and Omphale, gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Hercules and Omphale, funerary relief, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Worship of Hercules
Altars
Museo Capitolino, Rome
Museo Gregorio Profano, Rome
Museo Laterano Profano, Rome—see Labours of Hercules
Lost, Lares altar
Herms of Hercules
Museo Archeologico, Naples
Lost, formerly Astalli and Benzoni collections, Rome
Cycles
Single figure
Heads
Busts
Reclining
Crouching
Sitting
Running/gesticulating violently
Riding on horseback
Standing
Hercules Farnese, copies after 1600
With lion skin on head
Hand on hip
Club under armpit
Resting club on shoulder
Holding apples of Hesperides
Holding bow (and arrows)
Hercules Musagetes
Brandishing a weapon
Miscellaneous
With other figures
With Amor
With Eurystheus
With Jupiter
With Mercury
With the Muses
With nymphs
Hercules Psychopompos (with Alcestis, Persephone, Theseus, Prometheus)
With satyr
With Telephus
With Theseus
With Victory
Miscellaneous
With Virtue and/or Vice
The Choice of Hercules
Virtue, Hercules and Vice only
Virtue, Hercules and Vice with other figures
Hercules asleep
Adaptations
Text
Hercules Gallicus
Hercules Germanicus
Allegories and Adaptations
Birth and Infancy
Cycles
Birth
Infant Hercules strangling serpents
Single figure
With other figures
Infant Hercules wearing lion's skin
Miscellaneous
The drunken Hercules
The madness of Hercules
The Labours of Hercules
Sarcophagi and reliefs
Cycles
Individual
Nemean lion
Strangling it
Rending its jaws
Miscellaneous
Lernean hydra
Hercules killing it with a club only
Hercules killing it with a club and/or a torch
Miscellaneous
Arcadian stag
Erymanthean boar
Augian stables
Stymphalian birds
Cretan bull
Mares of Diomedes
Girdle of Hippolyte
Oxen of Geryon
Apples of the Hesperides
Cerberus
Exploits
Hercules and Antaeus
Front to front
Antaeus’ leg or legs kicking back
Antaeus’ leg or legs around Hercules
Antaeus side on to Hercules
Antaeus grasping Hercules’ arm
Antaeus’ arms free
Miscellaneous
Hercules and Achelous
Hercules and Atlas
Hercules and Belgion
Hercules and Busiris
Hercules and Cacus
Hercules and the Centaurs (marriage of Pirithous and Hippodamia)
Hercules and the Cercopes
Hercules and the Giants
Hercules delivering Hesione
Hercules fighting Laomedon
Hercules and the pygmies
Hercules with Zetes and Calais, the Boreades
Discovering Purple
Attempting to carry off the tripod
Founding the Olympic Games
The columns of Gades
Creating Lake Vico near Caprarola
Loves of Hercules
Miscellaneous
The daughters of Thespius
Hercules and Omphale
Omphale only
Hercules only
Omphale and Hercules only
With Amor/Amoretti
Hercules kicking Faunus/Pan out of Omphale’s bed
With other figures
Hercules and Iole
Hercules and Dejanira
Poussin drawings
Abduction of Dejanira by Hercules
Dejanira carried off by Nessus: Hercules not present
Dejanira carried off by Nessus: Hercules in pursuit
Hercules fighting Nessus: Dejanira not present
Hercules rescuing Dejanira
Dying Nessus gives the poisoned garment to Dejanira
Death and apotheosis of Hercules
Hercules and Lichas
Death of Hercules
Apotheosis
Marriage with Hebe
Worship and attributes
Worship of Hercules
Hercules Altar
Hercules Alexikakos
Herms of Hercules
Arms of Hercules
Pillars of Hercules
Herms
Census
‘Dea Themis’, Nationalgalerie, Prague
Herm (?), lost, drawing in Teylersmuseum, Haarlem
Antique, non-Census
Renaissance and later
Hermaphrodite
Census
Gem, Museo Archeologico, Naples
Lost statue, Villa Borghese, Rome
Statue, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Lost statue, Palazzo Savelli, Rome
Fragment of a sculpted group, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Single figure
With Salmacis
Hermathena (see also Mercury and Athena)
Hero and Leander
Hesperides
Hippocamp
Hippocrene
Hippodamia
Hippolytus (and Phaedra)
Census
Ivory, Brescia, Museo Archeologico
Sarcophagus, Cathedral, Capua
Sarcophagus, Uffizi, Florence
Gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa
Birth
Hunting
Hippolytus and Phaedra
Theseus chasing Hippolytus
Death of Hippolytus
Hippolytus raised to life by Aesculapius
Hippomenes--see Atalanta
Homogyrus
Horae—see Hours
Horus
Hyacinth (see also Apollo)
Hygieia
Census
Statue, Florence, Palazzo Pitti
Statue, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Bust, Museo Nazionale, Rome
State, Belvedere, Vatican, Rome
Hygieia and Aesculapius, Turin—see Aesculapius
Statue, seated, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statuette, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Hylas (and the nymphs)
Hymen
Hypnos
Census
Miscellaneous
Iapyx
Icarius
Census
Miscellaneous
Icarus (see also Daedalus)
Census
Miscellaneous
Ichthyophagi
Idomeneus
Indigetes--see Deification of Aeneas
Ino (see also Leucothea)
Io
Cycles
Studying
With Jupiter, not yet transformed
With Jupiter, transformed into a cow
Mercury, Argus and Io—see MERCURY
As a cow, with her father Inachus
Io in Egypt
Iole--see Hercules
Iphigenia (see also Chryses)
Census
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, puteal or altar, Uffizi, Florence
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Medici vase, Uffizi, Florence
Iphigenia in Tauris, sarcophagus, Villa Albani, Rome
Iphigenia in Tauris, sarcophagus, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Iphigenia in Tauris, two sarcophagi, Schlossmuseum, Weimar
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, with Diana
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, without Diana
Iphigenia in Tauris
Miscellaneous
Iphis of Crete
Iphis of Cyprus (and Anaxarete)
Iris
Isis
Census
Torso, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Drawing after a statue, possibly Rome, Palazzo Medici
Colossal head, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome
Bust, Piazza Venezia, Rome
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Drawing after an unidentified statue, Girolamo da Carpi
Drawing after an unidentified statue
Drawings after an unidentified statue, Jacopo Strada
With sistrum (goddess or priestess)
Without sistrum (goddess or priestess)
Worship of Isis
Isis grafting etc.
Ixion
Janus
Miscellaneous
Quadrigati
Jason--see Argonauts
Juno
Census
Statue, Giardino di Boboli, Florence—see ANTIQUITIES
Statue, Uffizi, Florence—see ANTIQUITIES
Statue, Juno Farnese, Museo Archeologico, Naples
Statue, Juno Cesi, Museo Capitolino, Rome—see PROSERPINA
Colossal head, Juno Ludovisi, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome
Statue, Juno Este, Cavalieri I-II, pl. 47
Altar, Lost? Or Palazzo Torlonia?
Heads
Enthroned/seated with peacock
Enthroned/seated without peacock
Standing
On a chariot
Juno pronuba
Worship of Juno
Myths (see also Jupiter, Semele)
Cycle
Juno nursing Hercules: the origin of the Milky Way
Juno punished for persecuting Hercules
Juno and Argus: story of the peacock's tail—see Mercury and Argus
Juno in the underworld: story of Athamas
Various myths/with other figures
Jupiter
Census
Single figure
Heads and busts
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Bust, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Bust, Capital, via Dini, Pisa
Standing figures
Colossal torso, Louvre, Paris
Statue, Lost? Louvre, Paris? Borghese Gardens, Rome?
Statue, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Lost? Ex-Verospi collection, Rome
Statue, Lost? Cavalieri III-IV, 23
Statuette, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Etruscan, bronze, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Enthroned
Statue, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Throne, Mantua, Palazzo Ducale
Enthroned, bottom half of a statue, Naples
Merged identities
Jupiter Ammon, herm, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Jupiter Ammon, head, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Jupiter Dolichenus, votive relief, Berlin
Jupiter Dolichenus, enthroned, votive relief, lost
Jupiter Dolichenus, votive altar, lost
Jupiter Serapis, bust, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Jupiter Serapis, capital, Pisa
Various aspects
Jupiter in quadriga, gem, Museo Archeologico, Naples
Infancy
Amaltheia relief, Rome, Vatican
With other deities
Altar or sarcophagus end, Hever Castle, Kent
Relief, Louvre, Paris
Worship
Sacrifice, relief, lost
Single figure
Heads and busts
Jupiter standing, without eagle or thunderbolt
Jupiter enthroned
As storm god
Jupiter Tonans
Jupiter Pluvius
Jupiter with eagle
The eagle of Jupiter
Merged identities
Jupiter Ammon
Jupiter Heliopolitanus/Dolichenus/Hadad
Jupiter Melichios
Zeus Sabazios
Jupiter Serapis
Various aspects
Oracle of Dodona
Jupiter Stator
Jupiter in Quadriga
Herms
Images from Cartari
Miscellaneous
Birth and infancy
Birth
Curetes banging shields
Story of the cornucopia
Sucking at the paps of the goat Amaltheia
Drinking milk, but not sucking at the paps of the goat
Not drinking milk
Loves
Cycles
Miscellaneous and unidentified (see also Aegina, Alcmene, Antiope, Asteria, Callisto, Danaë, Europa, Ganymede, Io, Leda, Maia, Mnemosyne, Semele, Theophane)
With other deities
Amor
Giants—see Gigantomachia
Juno
Mercury/painting butterfly wings
Saturn/Kronos
Venus
Vulcan
Miscellaneous
Worship of Jupiter
Altars
Sacrifice
Temple
Votive images
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Kairos
Census
Relief, Louvre, Paris
Relief, Torcello
Miscellaneous
Kronos
Types
Classical tradition (‘hooded’/velatus)
With wings
Without wings, with scythe or sickle
In his chariot/riding a dragon
With crutches or staff
With spade or mattock
With sword or axe
With banner
Playing dice
As a river god
Phoenician (four eyes)
“Melancholic manifestations”
Miscellaneous
Myths
With Rhea
Devouring his children
Devouring the stone
Castrated
With Philyra
Other myths
Labyrinth
Laocoon
Census
Vatican group
Photographs
Paintings and illuminations
Prints
Drawings
Statue after the original
The Vatican Virgil and its adaptations
Copies and depictions of the Vatican marble after 1600
Miscellaneous
Head only
Adaptations of the Vatican marble
Miscellaneous
For caricatures
Images implausibly related to the Vatican marble in the past
Independent of the Vatican marble
Classical
Medieval
Renaissance and later
Laomedon--see Historia Troiana, building of Troy
Lares
Largia
Latona
Single figure
Giving birth to Apollo and Diana
With her children
Turning the Lycian peasants into frogs
Miscellaneous
Leda
Census
Statue, Uffizi, Florence
Leda and Ganymede sarcophagus, lost, formerly Montecavallo
Statue, lost, formerly Villa Borghese, Rome
Relief, Palacio di Pilato, Seville
Statue, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Leda and the swan
Swan approaching
Leda standing
Leda sitting
Leda reclining
With her children
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Literature
Lemnian women--see Polyxo
Leucippides
Census
Sarcophagus, Uffizi, Florence
Sarcophagus, Rome, Vatican
Miscellaneous
Leucothea (see also Ino)
Leucothoë
Ligdus and Telethusa
Linus
Lucina
Luna--see Diana Luna, Selene
Lycaon
Lycurgus
Lyncus
Lynope
Macaria
Maenads (cf. Bacchantes)
Census
Left end of Amoretti sarcophagus, Asolo, Museo Civico
Relief, Uffizi, Florence
Gems, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Circular relief, Museo Civico, Padua
Statue, Museo Archeologico
Base, Louvre, Paris
Relief, Louvre, Paris
Statue, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Head, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Base, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Lost relief, Cain no. 158
Unidentified statue, from the Savelli collection
Miscellaneous
Mareotis
Mars
Census
Single figure
Bronze statuette, British Museum, London
Statue, Louvre, Paris
Armed (Pyrrhus), Museo Capitolino, Rome
Colossal Head, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome
Type of Ares Ludovisi, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome
With Rhea Silvia
Mars, Rhea Silvia and Endymion sarcophagus, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Mattei, Rome
Relief, Museo Nazionale, Rome
With Venus
Sarcophagus, Cathedral, Amalfi
Sarcophagus, Abbey, Grottaferrata
Antefix, Metropolitan Museum, New York, and Louvre, Paris
Attributes
Heads and busts
Seated
Mars Gradivus
In a chariot
Seated
Mars and Venus
Cycles
Standing group
Seated/ seated and standing
Bath of Mars and Venus
With Amor
In landscape/clouds
In bedroom
In Vulcan's forge
Caught in bed by Vulcan
Mars leaving Venus
Miscellaneous
With other deities and figures
Mars and Rhea Silvia
Mars and Bellona
Mars and Athena
Mars and Amor/Mars chastising Amor
Mars and Jupiter
Mars and Victory (see also Victory and other figures)
Miscellaneous
Marsyas
Census
Statue, ‘white type’, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, ‘red type’, Uffizi, Florence
Knife-grinder, Uffizi, Florence
Sarcophagus, formerly Hever Castle
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Sarcophagus, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Apollo and Marsyas, ceiling paintings from a Roman columbarium, lost
Marsyas piping, bronze statuette, Renaissance copies in Modena, New York, Berlin
‘Marsyas’ seated, restored by Verrocchio as Marsyas flayed
Sarcophagus, lost
Mater Matuta
Medea--see Argonauts
Medusa--see Gorgo
Melampus
Meleager
Census
Cycles
Single figure
Sarcophagi
Hunt of the Calydonian boar
Meleager presents the head of the Calydonian boar to Atalanta
Meleager and Atalanta: miscellaneous
Meleager killing his uncles
Althea thrusting the brand into the fire
Death of Meleager
Meleager mourned
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Melicertes--see also Ino, Leucothoë, Palaimon
Memnon--see Aurora, Historia Troiana
Men
Mercury
Census
Heads and busts
Greek vase painting
Single figure: standing
Classical art
Hermes Kriophoros
Post-classical art
Single figure
Seated/lying
Flying/running
In a chariot
Tying his sandals
Various functions and attitudes
As patron of the arts
As patron of trade
Psychopompos
As type of eloquence
With miscellaneous attributes
With other figures
With Athena
With Amor
With Rosmerta
With other gods
With other figures (not gods)
Various myths
Childhood
Invention of the caduceus
Stealing the oxen of Apollo
Mercury and Battus
Mercury and the infant Bacchus
Mercury and the nymph Lara
Mercury and the dishonest woodcutter
Sacrifice to Mercury
Adaptations
Mercury, Herse and Aglauros
Cycles
Mercury discovering Herse
Mercury arguing with Aglauros
Mercury and Argus
Cycles
Juno orders Argus to guard Io
Mercury and Argus conversing, before Mercury plays his flute
Mercury lulling Argus to sleep
Argus asleep: Mercury draws his sword
Mercury killing Argus
Juno with the eyes of Argus (the peacock’s tail)
Mercury with the head of Argus
Miscellaneous
Merope
Midas
Cycles
Silenus brought before Midas
Midas and the Satyr
The Midas touch: everything turns to gold
Midas washing in the river Pactolus
Judging between Apollo and Pan: with Tmolus
Judging between Apollo and Pan: without Tmolus
Judging between Apollo and Marsyas--see Apollo and Marsyas
Minerva--see Athena
Minos
Minotaur
Minyeides
Mithras
Census
Statue, British Museum, London
Relief, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Relief, Louvre, Paris
Side panels from a lost relief, Louvre, Paris
Lost, formerly Palazzo Altieri, Rome
Lost, formerly San Marco, Rome
Mithraic temples
Ostia
Rome, San Clemente
The killing of the bull
With scenes from the life of Mithras
With the zodiac
Without scenes from the life of Mithras or the zodiac
With symbolic animals (scorpion, snake, dog etc.)
Without symbolic animals
Scenes from the life of Mithras (other than the killing of the bull)
Heads, single figures etc.
Associated deities, genii etc.
Inscriptions
Miscellaneous
Fritz Saxl notes and comparative material
Mnemosyne--see Muses
Moirai (Fates)
Momus (see also Athena, Neptune, Vulcan)
Mopsus
Morpheus
Muses
Census
Statues and reliefs
Rome
‘Calliope’, Museo Capitolino
Palazzo dei Conservatori ?
Palazzo dei Conservatori
Vatican (research in progress)
‘Urania’, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican
Croce Greca, Vatican
Grotte, Vatican
Outside Rome
Mantineia base, National Museum, Athens
Seated, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Seated with cithera, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Standing, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
‘Anchyrroe’, Uffizi, Florence
‘Trophos’, Uffizi, Florence
‘Terpsichore’, Uffizi, Florence
‘Anchyrroe’, Museum, Liverpool
Marble statues, Prado, Madrid
Standing, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua?
Standing, Glyptothek, Munich
Standing, Museo Nazionale, Naples
‘Euterpe’, Museo Nazionale, Naples
‘Melpomene’, Louvre, Paris
‘Thalia’, National Museum, Stockholm
Standing, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Location unknown/unidentified
Standing, formerly Vigna di Giulio II
Seated, formerly Della Valle collection
Formerly Vatican, Belvedere
Sarcophagi
Rome
Villa Borghese and Louvre, Paris
San Crisogono
Palazzo Farnese
Santa Maria in Aventino
Villa Medici
Museo Nazionale
San Paolo fuori le mura
Palazzo dei Senatori
Belvedere, Vatican
Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican
Outside Rome
Glyptothek, Munich
Museo Nazionale, Naples
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Woburn Abbey
Location unknown/unidentified
Codex Pighianus fol. 281v
Jacopo Strada drawings
Cycles
Groups of nine
Groups of fewer than nine
Concert
Lamenting/departing
Individual
Calliope
Clio
Erato
Euterpe
Melpomene
Polymnia
Terpsichore
Thalia
Urania
With other deities
Dancing to Apollo's music
With Athena
With other deities
Myths
Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses
Contest with the Pierides
With Pyreneus
With Thamyris
Adaptations
Artist or author with Muse
Miscellaneous
Myrrha--see Birth of Adonis
Naiads
Census
Statues, Louvre, Paris
Miscellaneous
Narcissus
Census
Statue, Louvre, Paris
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Gazing into (artificial) well or fountain
Gazing into (natural) pond or stream
Statues
Narcissus and/or Echo, miscellaneous
Natura
Census
Lost, formerly in the Garimberti collection
Nemesis
Neptune
Census
Gem, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, formerly Villa Medici, Rome
Sarcophagus, Vatican, Rome
With trident
With sea-horses
With dolphin or sea-monster
On a fountain
Head/bust only
In his chariot
Triumph of Neptune
'Quos ego'
Various scenes
Creating the horse
Protecting a ship
With other gods
Loves of Neptune
Allegories
In allegorical portraits
Adaptations
Miscellaneous
Nereids and Tritons
Census
Statues
Nereid riding on a hippocamp, Uffizi, Florence
Nereid riding on a dolphin, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Sarcophagi
Uffizi, Florence, 119
Uffizi, Florence, 160
Badia, Grottaferrata
Louvre, Paris
Campo Santo, Pisa, Rumpf 6
Campo Santo, Pisa, Rumpf 131
Campo Santo, Pisa, Rumpf 133
Palazzo Mattei, Rome
Villa Medici, Rome, Rumpf 102
Villa Medici, Rome, Rumpf 117
Villa Medici, Rome, Rumpf 211
Belvedere, Vatican, Rome
Giardino della Pigna, Vatican, Rome
Museo Profano, Vatican, Rome
Cathedral, Salerno
Opera del Duomo, Siena
Formerly Alberto Fassini collection
Formerly SS. Apostoli, Rome
Formerly Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome
Formerly Quirinal, Rome
Formerly Palazzo Valle-Capranica, Rome
Unidentified
--see Sea Gods
Nessus--see Hercules, Loves: Dejanira
Niobids
Census
Pedagogue statue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen
Statue group, Uffizi, Florence
Dead Niobid, statue, Glyptothek, Munich, 269
Torso (‘Ilioneus’), Glyptothek, Munich, 270
Sarcophagus, Wilton House
Individuals fleeing/dying
Some fleeing on horseback: after Polidoro
Some fleeing on horseback, miscellaneous
None fleeing on horseback
Nymphs
Census
Bronze plaquette, Bargello, Florence
Statue, seated ‘alla spina’, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, with panther, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, dabbling hand in spring, Louvre, Paris
Head of a sleeping nymph, Museo Nazionale, Rome
Lost and unidentified
Votive relief to nymphs (sources), formerly Carpi collection
Fragment of votive relief, formerly Carpi collection
Statue of a sleeping nymph, formerly Carpi collection
Stepped miniature fountain with nymphs and dolphins, Dosio drawing
Votive relief to nymphs with Hercules and Silvanus, formerly Soderini collection
Votive relief to nymphs with Attis and Mercury, formerly Monte Cavallo
Reclining nymph, formerly Galli collection
Unidentified, Jacopo Strada drawing
Bathing
Clasping ankle
Dancing
Dryads
Sleeping
Source
‘Huius nympha loci sacri custodia fontis’
With urns (not obviously sources)
Nymphs and satyrs—see Satyrs and nymphs
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Oceanus
Census
‘River God’ type, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Disc-shaped head, ‘Bocca della Verità’, S. Maria in Cosmedin, Rome
Funerary altar with Oceanus head, lost, formerly Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli; Pighianus
Miscellaneous
Ocyrhoë
Oedipus--see Historia Thebana
Oeneus
Oleaster
Olympia (see also Loves of Jupiter: Cycles)
Olympus (Mount)
Olympus (Musician and poet; see also Daphnis, Pan)
Omphale
Omphalos
Ops
Opheltes
Census
Orestes—see Iphigenia in Tauris, Historia Troiana
Orion
Orithyia--see Boreas
Orpheus
Census
Cycles
Single figure
Civilizing the Greeks
With the Thracians
On board the Argo
Miscellaneous
Orpheus and Eurydice
Cycles
Orpheus wooing Eurydice
Death of Eurydice, bitten by a snake
Eurydice: single figure
Orpheus on his way to Hades/singing before Pluto and Proserpina
Orpheus leading Eurydice out of Hades
Orpheus turns back, thus losing Eurydice
Orpheus enchanting the animals
Classical art
Post-classical art
Orpheus playing stringed instrument with neck
Orpheus playing bowed instrument
Orpheus playing lyre or harp
Adaptations/miscellaneous
Death of Orpheus
Clubbed
Stabbed
Stoned
Torn to pieces
The singing head of Orpheus
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Osiris
Cycles
Miscellaneous
Padusa
Palaimon (see also Melicertes)
Palaestra
Pales
Palinurus (see also Aeneid)
Palisci
Palladium--see Athena, Ajax and Cassandra, Mars and Rhea Silvia
Pan
Census
Pan and Olympus, statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Pan from a Pan and Olympus group, statue, Louvre, Paris
Pan carrying a basket, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Pan, draped, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Pan and Olympus, statue, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome
Pan with animals, relief, Thasos
Various attitudes and contexts
Herms
Single figure
Fighting with a goat
Carried by children
With nymphs
Poussin drawings
Feast of Pan & sacrifice to Pan
Miscellaneous
Various myths
Pan and Apollo (see also Midas)
Pan and Athena
Pan offering wool to Diana
Pan and Syrinx
Pan and Olympus/Daphnis
Pan and Amor
Punishment of Pan
Miscellaneous
Pandora
Parcae--see Moirai
Paris--see Historia Troiana
Parnassus
Pasiphae
Census
Pasiphae and Daedalus sarcophagus, Louvre, Paris and Villa Borghese, Rome
Miscellaneous
Pegasus
Peleus (see also Atalanta, Sea-Gods)
Census
Marriage of P. and Thetis, ‘Campana’ terracotta plaques, Louvre & British Museum
The Portland vase
Peleus capturing Thetis
The wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Peleus’ wanderings after his killing of Phocus
Pelias--see Medea
Pelops
Census
Sarcophagus, Louvre, Paris
Etruscan cinerary urn, Museo Etrusco, Vatican, Rome
Fed to the gods
Contest with Oenomaus and Hippodamia
Asking Neptune for horses
Penthesilea--See Amazons, Achilles and Penthesilea
Pentheus
Census
Sarcophagus, Hever Castle, Kent
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa
Miscellaneous
Perseus
Cycles
Single figure
With Danaë
The origin of coral
Miscellaneous incidents
Adaptations
Perseus and Medusa (see also Gorgo)
Perseus being armed for the fight with Medusa
Perseus killing Medusa
Perseus with the head of Medusa
Perseus and Andromeda
Andromeda alone
Chained to the rock
Not chained to the rock
Perseus killing monster
On Pegasus
Not on Pegasus
After the death of the sea-monster
Perseus untying Andromeda, & c.
Marriage and sacrifice
Wedding feast of Perseus and Andromeda
Phineus and his followers attack
Phineus and his followers turned to stone
Black Andromeda
Adaptations
Phaedra
Census
Fragment of Hippolytus sarcophagus, in the wall of Canova’s Studio, Rome
Miscellaneous
Phaeton
Census
Greco-Roman gem, Florence
Sarcophagus, Uffizi, Florence
Sarcophagus, Louvre, Paris
Adaptations
Classical art
Cycles (post-classical)
Phaeton before Helios
Phaeton driving the chariot of the Sun (before the fall)
The fall of Phaeton (without metamorphosis of Heliades/Cygnus)
The fall of Phaeton (with metamorphosis of Heliades/Cygnus)
After the fall
Phanes
Census
Relief statue, Museo Civico, Modena
Miscellaneous
Philemon and Baucis
Philomela—see Tereus
Philyra—see Kronos
Phineus—see Perseus
Phlegias
Phrixus or Phryxus
Picus
Pirithous and Hippodamia—see battle of Centaurs and Lapiths
Pitys
Ploutos—see SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY, Wealth
Pluto (see also Proserpina)
Census
Pluto and Cerberus visit a dying man, relief, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Pluto with Cerberus, statue, lost, formerly collection of Jacomo da Perugia, Rome
Pluto with Cerberus, statue, lost, formerly collection of Bruto della Valle, Rome
Miscellaneous
Polyphemus (see also Acis, Galathea, Odyssey)
Census
Head, lost, formerly Dei Rossi collection?
Classical art
Miscellaneous
Polyxena—see Historia Troiana
Polyxo
Pomona (see also Vertumnus, Horae, Seasons)
Census
Statue, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, lost, formerly Ludovisi collection, Rome
Without Vertumnus
Single figure
Adaptations
Pothos—see SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY, Yearning
Potnia Theron
Priapus
Census
Herm, lost, formerly Cesi collection
Priapus and Lotis
Sacrifice to Priapus
Miscellaneous
Procne—see Tereus
Procris (see also Cephalus and Procris)
Procrustes—see Theseus
Prometheus
Cycles
Forming the first man
Bringing fire to mankind
Punishment, and delivery by Hercules
Proserpina
Census
Proserpina and Pluto, sarcophagus end, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Statue, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Proserpina and Pluto, relief, Cathedral, Salerno
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statue, lost, type of statue in Galleria dei Candelabri, Rome
Census: rape of Proserpina
Sarcophagus, Uffizi, Florence
Relief, Hever castle
Sarcophagus, Soane Museum, London
Sarcophagus, Torno Collection, Milan
Sarcophagus, Louvre
Sarcophagus, Campo Santo, Pisa
Relief, Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
Sarcophagus, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome
Sarcophagus, Cathedral, Salerno
Funerary relief, lost, Codex Pighianus, 46r
Bar-coded non-Census rape of Proserpina sarcophagi
Cycles
Before and after the rape
Gathering flowers (before the rape)
Proserpina in Hades
Return of Proserpina
Eleusinian cult of Proserpina
Miscellaneous
Rape of Proserpina
Pluto seizes Proserpina
Struggle in the chariot
Pluto carries away Proserpina
Miscellaneous
Protesilaus
Proteus
Psyche (see also Amor and Psyche)
Census
Statue, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Gem, formerly Grimani collection
Miscellaneous
Pygmalion
Pygmies
Pyramus and Thisbe
Cycles
Thisbe fleeing from the lion
Thisbe finds the dead Pyramus
Suicide of Thisbe
Miscellaneous incidents
Adaptations
River-gods
Census
Rome
Arch of Septimius Severus
Arch of Titus
Nile and Tiber, Campidoglio
‘Marforio’, Museo Capitolino
Valle dei Caffarelli
Nile, Vatican
Tigris, Vatican
Outside Rome
Relief, Arch of Trajan, Beneventum
Nile, statue, Piazzetta S. Angelo a Nilo, Naples
‘Oceanus Cesarini’, statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
‘Oceanus Fabii’, statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Tiber, statue, Louvre, Paris
Relief on sarcophagus end, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
Statue, lost, Codex Coburgensis
Statue, location unknown, Della Porta collection, Rome
Miscellaneous
Rumina
Sabazios
Salmacis—see Hermaphrodite
Salmoneus
Saturn--see Kronos
Satyrs
Census
Statues
Torso, Castel Gandolfo
Holding up grapes for a panther, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Wearing goatskin and pine crown, Poggio Imperiale, Florence
Torso, Uffizi, Florence
Dancing with cymbals, Uffizi, Florence
Holding up grapes for a panther, Uffizi, Florence
Three satyrs strangled by a serpent, Private Collection, Graz
Resting, type of Glyptothek, Munich
Holding up grapes for a panther, Museo Nazionale, Naples
With infant Bacchus, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Two reliefs, Museo Civico, Padua
Playing pipes, Louvre, Paris
Dancing, Villa Borghese, Rome
Riding on a dolphin, Villa Borghese, Rome
Resting, Museo Capitolino, Rome
In garland on sarcophagus, S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
Trampling grapes, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 81
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 105
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 129
Head, Museo Archeologico, Venice, 223
Torso, lost, formerly Della Valle collection
Head, untraced
Piping, untraced
Dancing with cymbals, untraced
Herm, untraced
Dancing, untraced
Gems
Head, Antikensammlung, Berlin
Bacchantic satyr, Museo Nazionale, Naples
With infant Bacchus, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Supporting drunken Pan, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Embracing nymph, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Heads and masks
Torsoes
Single figures
Miscellaneous
Bronze statuettes
Riding/with animals
Resting (Praxitelean type)
With musical instruments
Dancing (without nymphs)
Drinking/pouring wine
Holding up grapes/wine
Drunken/fallen
Satyr family
With children
With hermaphrodite
Satyrs and maenads
Satyrs and nymphs
Agostino Carracci engravings
Poussin drawings
Kissing/caressing/embracing
Satyrs pursuing/raping nymphs
Nymphs mocking satyrs
Dancing
Satyr(s) with sleeping nymph
Satyrs fighting over nymph
Filling a cornucopia
Miscellaneous
Satyr and peasant--see CLASSICAL LITERATURE, Aesop
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Scylla, daughter of Nisus, king of Megara (see also Minos)
Scylla, daughter of Phorcys and Hecate (see also Glaucus)
Census
Trapezophoros, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Miscellaneous
Scylla bowl (British Museum)
Sea-gods and animals
Census
Atalantid, Stoa of Giants, Athens
Tritons sarcophagus, Museo Campano, Capua
Monsters, sarcophagus cover, Vatican, Rome
Monsters, Teatro Marittimo, Villa Adriana, Tivoli
Monsters, Piazza d’Oro, Villa Adriana, Tivoli
Sea-monster ridden by a putto, lost
Cycles
Classical and general types
Statues
Nereid sarcophagi
Classical reliefs, gems, mosaics
Miscellaneous friezes
Nereids and Tritons
Nereid on Triton, hippocamp, dolphin etc.
Nereids and Tritons, miscellaneous
Nereids, miscellaneous
Battle of Tritons
Triton blowing a conch-shell
Tritons, miscellaneous
Sea-monsters
Selene
Census
From marriage sarcophagus, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome
From Cleobis and Biton sarcophagus, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Miscellaneous
Semele
Serapis--see Jupiter Serapis
Silenus
Census
Standing, Glyptothek, Munich
With infant Bacchus, Louvre, Paris
With wineskin, Villa Albani, Rome
Reclining, U.S. Embassy, Rome
Supporting himself on a staff, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Reclining, lost
Heads and masks
Single figure
With the infant Bacchus
In scenes with other figures
Drunken Silenus
Carried or supported
In triumph/on a goat or donkey
Lying down
Silvanus
Census
Relief, Antikensammlung, Berlin
Miscellaneous
Sirens
With single fish tails
With double fish/serpent tails
With bird tails
With human legs
With ornamental scrolls for tails
With claws
Sisyphus
Sphinx
Census
Two basalt sphinxes, Louvre, Paris
Relief, House of Crescenzio, Rome
From amoretti sarcophagus, Torcello, Venice
Relief, lost (formerly Casa Galli)
Statue, lost
Relief (?), unidentified
Single figure, sculpted in the round
With other figures, in narrative/symbolic contexts
Miscellaneous
Styx, river
Syria, Dea
Census
Altar, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Statue, lost, formerly Mattei collection
Miscellaneous
Tages
Talus (Perdix)--see Daedalus
Tantalus
Taras
Tartarus (see also Elysian fields)
Telamon
Telemus
Telephos
Telesphorus
Tellus
Tereus
Terminus
Terra--see MAGIC AND SCIENCE, Earth
Themis
Theophane
Theseus
Census
Fresco, destroyed, formerly Herculaneum
Cycles
Individual scenes
Theseus finding his father's shoes and sword under a stone
Theseus and Cerceyon
Theseus and Procroustes
Theseus and the Centaur
Theseus and the bull of Marathon
Young Athenians drawing lots
Theseus killing the minotaur
Theseus and Ariadne
Theseus and the Amazons
Miscellaneous
Thetis (see also Peleus and Thetis)
Jupiter and Thetis
Neptune and Thetis
Miscellaneous
Thiae
Tiresias
Titans (see also Giants)
Tityus
Triptolemos
Trophonius
Typhon
Ulysses--see Odyssey
Underworld--see Hades
Uranus
Venus
Census
Standing
Statue, draped below hips, Villa Reale, Caserta
Statue, draped low, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Statue, pudica, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Statue, with dolphin, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Statue, with jar, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Statue, with dolphin (Medici Venus), Uffizi, Florence
Statue, draped behind, Uffizi, Florence
Statue, with Amor, Uffizi, Florence
Statuette, Venus Panthea, British Museum, London
Statue, partly draped, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
Statue, Venus Genetrix type, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Statue, Pudica Santa Croce, Glyptothek, Munich
Statue, Cnidian type, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Genetrix type, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Kallipygos, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, with Amor, Louvre, Paris
Torso, Louvre, Paris
Statue, Pudica, Rockefeller Collection, Pocantico Hills, New York State
Statue, Venus or sea nymph, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
Statue, with dolphin, Villa Borghese, Rome
Statue, with Amor riding on a dolphin, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Statue, Pudica (Cnidian), Museo Torlonia, Rome
Statue, Venus Hygieia, Vatican, Rome
Statue, Venus Felix, with Amor, Vatican, Rome
Statue, Venus of Cnidos, Vatican, Rome
Statue, ‘ex Balneo’, Vatican, Rome
Statue, Pudica with Amor riding on a dolphin, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statue, Pudica semi-draped, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statue, headless, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statuette, with Amor, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statuette, headless, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statuette, Venus Sosandra, Museo Archeologico, Venice
Statue, Genetrix type, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Statuette, bronze, Granvella Venus, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Statue, lost, in the Ciampolini collection in 16th century
Statue, lost, in the Maffei collection in 16th century
Statue, lost, in collection of Cardinal Bibbiena in 16th century
Statue, lost, formerly in Cevoli and Borghese collections
Statuette, lost, type known in Raphael’s circle
Statue, nude, arms missing, unidentified
Fragment, Venus binding sandal, unidentified
Statue, drawn twice from behind, unidentified
Statue, Venus both nude and draped, unidentified
Statue, Venus pudica torso, unidentified
Statuette, Venus binding sandal, unidentified
Statuette, Anadyomene draped, unidentified
Relief, Venus on a dolphin, from lost Daedalus and Icarus sarcophagus
Statues, Jacopo Strada drawings, unidentified
Crouching
Statue, British Museum, London (from Windsor Castle)
Relief, from funerary urn of M. Coelius Superstes, British Museum, London
Statue, Prado, Madrid
Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Statue, Museo delle Terme, Rome
Statue, lost, in Mellini collection in 16th century
Statue, Codex Pighianus fol. 180, unidentified
Statue, Jan de Bisschop, unidentified
Seated
Statue, Giardino di Boboli, Rome
Statue, Museo di Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome
Heads and busts
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig
Museo Nazionale, Naples
Museo Archeologico, Venice
Museo Archeologico, Venice
Museo Archeologico, Venice
Museo Archeologico, Venice
Gems
Venus on a lion, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Venus on a goat, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Venus with Amor and Hermaphrodite, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Venus of Aphrodisias
Residenzmuseum, Munich
Museo Nazionale, Naples
Single figure
Classical types
Cnidian
De Milo
Genetrix
Kallipygos
Archaic support type
Venus Pudica
Capitoline
Capitoline type
De' Medici
De' Medici type
Without dolphin or jar
Draped
Unrestored torsoes
Adaptations
Standing
Draped/semi-draped
Semi-draped: statues drawn by Pierre Jacques
Legs draped, with drapery knotted low in front
Miscellaneous
Nude
Crouching
Seated
Heads and busts
Venus Anadyomene/Birth of Venus
Ludovisi Throne, Rome
Botticelli
Squeezing her hair dry
Not squeezing her hair dry
Adaptations
Aspects
Venus Marina
Without veil or sail
With veil or sail
Venus Frigida (Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus)
Armed Venus—see Venus Victrix
Venus Genetrix—see Classical Types, Venus Verticordia
Venus Verticordia
Venus Victrix
Venus Virgo
Winged Venus
Attributes
Apple
Doves
Girdle
Swan/goose
Sword
Symbols of fertility
Tortoise
Reclining
Sleeping
Toilet and bath of Venus
Untying a sandal
Removing a thorn from her foot
Bathing
Drying/dressing
Venus combing her hair
Venus combed and adorned by the Graces
Venus holding a mirror
With a mirror, but not holding it
Miscellaneous
Triumph of Venus
Marine
Terrestrial/aerial
Cult
Worship
Sacrifice
On the island of Cythera
Venus and Amor
Alone
Venus standing
Venus seated
Embracing Amor
Not embracing Amor
Venus crouching
Venus reclining
Various types and incidents
Venus punishing/disarming/clipping the wings of Amor
Amor directing his weapons at Venus
Venus holding arrow/Amor handing arrow to Venus
Amor blindfold
Venus holding heart or torch
Winged Venus and Amor—see Winged Venus
Venus lactans
Amor stung by bees or holding honeycomb
Miscellaneous
With other figures
With musician
With satyr or shepherd
Miscellaneous
With other deities
Amoretti
Apollo
Athena and Hercules—see SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY, Allegories of Art
Bacchus
Diana
Graces or nymphs
Juno
Jupiter
Kronos
Mars—see Mars and Venus
Mercury
Neptune
Pluto
Vulcan—see Vulcan
Miscellaneous
Venus and other figures
Aeneas
Anchises
Emperor
Paris
Miscellaneous
Venus in allegorical images
Adaptations
Vertumnus and Pomona
Cycles
Vertumnus in the guise of an old woman, Pomona clothed
Vertumnus in the guise of an old woman, Pomona nude
Vertumnus as a man
Vertumnus alone, without Pomona
Vertumnus and Pomona: adaptations
Vesta and Vestals
Census
Statue, so-called Hestia Giustiniani, Villa Albani, Rome
Unidentified Jacopo Strada drawings
Miscellaneous
Victory
Census
Reliefs, Arch of Trajan, Benevento
Statues, Skulpturensammlung, Berlin
Reliefs, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Relief, Victories with bull, Uffizi, Florence
Reliefs on a candelabrum base, Hever Castle
Reliefs, Victories killing bulls, Glyptothek, Munich
Gem, Victory driving a chariot, Museo Nazionale, Naples
Sarcophagus, Camposanto, Pisa
Relief, Victory writing on shield, Arch of Constantine, Rome
Reliefs, Victories with trophies, Arch of Constantine, Rome
Sarcophagus, Victories holding shield, Villa Doria Pamphilij, Rome
Reliefs from Decennalia base, Foro Romano, Rome
Figured capital, San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Rome
Relief, winged Victory, Arch of Titus, Rome
Reliefs from base of Trajan’s Column, Rome
Relief, Victory writing on shield, Trajan’s Column, Rome
Coin, Victory crowning charioteer, Kress Collection, New York
Relief, Victory restored as Fame (?), lost
Coin or medallion, Victory holding a shield, unidentified
Victory of Samothrace, Louvre
Temple of Nike Apteros
Flying
Single figure, miscellaneous
Riding a chariot
On or with globe
With trophies
Sacrificing a bull
Making libations
Holding a shield with inscription
Writing/carving on a shield
Holding a garland
Crowning
With other figures
Adaptations
Vulcan
Census
Relief, forge of Vulcan, Louvre, Paris
Sarcophagus, forge of Vulcan, Museo Capitolino, Rome
Cycle
Single figure
Miscellaneous incidents
Vulcan and Venus (not in forge)
Vulcan and Venus fondling Amor
The forge of Vulcan
Thetis in the forge of Vulcan
Venus and Amor in the forge of Vulcan
Miscellaneous
The return of Vulcan to Olympus
Zetes
Historia Troiana
Cycles
The building of Troy
Paris
Single figure
Paris and Oenone
Miscellaneous scenes from life
Dream of Paris
Judgement of Paris
Preliminary scenes
Goddesses descend to earth
Paris receives the apple from Mercury
Census
Classical art
With Mercury
Without Mercury
With river-gods
Mercury brings the apple to Venus
Adaptations
Paris and Helen
Census
Cycle
Before/after rape of Helen
Helen, without Paris, miscellaneous
Rape of Helen
Trojan War
Census
Scenes
Mourning over warriors
Battle of Greeks and Centaurs
Contest for the Palladium
Interference of the gods
Battle around Troy
Trojan horse
Sack of Troy
Miscellaneous
Heroes and Heroines of the Trojan War
Achilles
Census
Cycles
Miscellaneous
Scenes from his life
Birth and dipping into Styx
Youth and education
On Scyros, among the daughters of Lycomedes
With Briseis (see Briseis); Athena restrains Achilles’ anger
Sulking in his tent
With Patroclus
Thetis comforting Achilles
Thetis and the arms of Achilles
Achilles and Troilus
Achilles and Memnon
Achilles and Penthesilea
Achilles and Ajax playing a game
Achilles killing Hector—see Hector
Death of Achilles I: arrow in heel or ankle
Death of Achilles II: ambush in temple of Apollo
The contest over Achilles’ arms
Achilles during the Trojan war:, miscellaneous
The tomb of Achilles
Aegisthos
Aeneas
Deification
Miscellaneous
Agamemnon
Ajax, son of Telamon
Miscellaneous
Ulysses and Ajax with the arms of Achilles
Ajax, son of Oïleus
Anchises
Andromache
Antilochus
Briseis
Calchas
Cassandra
Census
Miscellaneous
Chryseis
Diomedes
Hector
Single figure
In warfare (not against Achilles)
Hector and Andromache
Hector and Priam
Death of Hector
Hector’s body dragged behind Achilles’ chariot
Ransoming, mourning and burial of Hector’s body
Miscellaneous
Hecuba
Helenus
Hercules
Iphigenia
Laomedon
Machaon
Memnon
Menelaus
Mourning the loss of Helen
With the body of Patroclos
Meeting Helen at the fall of Troy
Miscellaneous
Neoptolemus
Nestor
Orestes
Palamedes
Patroclus
Philoctetes
Census
Miscellaneous
Polymestor
Polyxena
Priam
Protesilaus
Census
Miscellaneous
Pyrrhus
Scamander, river
Talthybius
Teucer
Troilus
Tydeus
Unidentified and miscellaneous
Odyssey
Census
Cycles
Scenes
Calypso
Nausicaa
Polyphemus devouring Odysseus' companions
Blinding of Polyphemus
Polyphemus throwing stones
Aeolus
Land of the Laestrygones
Circe
Odysseus descends into the underworld
Scylla and Charybdis
Thrinacia: Odysseus' men devour Apollo's cattle
Sirens
Return to Ithaca: miscellaneous scenes
Penelope
Odysseus recognised by his dog
The slaying of the suitors
Odysseus and Penelope reunited
Odysseus: single figure
Odyssey: miscellaneous scenes
Adaptations
Aeneid
Census
Cycles
Manuscripts
London, British Library, Kings 24
London, Sotheby’s, 1 July 1946
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Can. Class. Lat. 52
Rome, The Vatican Virgil, Vat. Lat. 3225
Paintings and tapestries
Modena, Niccolò dell’Abate
Rubens
Dutch tapestries ca 1640
Vicenza, Tiepolo
Prints
G.M. Mitelli after the Carracci, Bologna
C. Cesio after Pietro da Cortona, Rome
After Cotelle, Saint-Cloud
After Coypel, Palais Royal
S. Bottschildt
B. Pinelli
Scenes
Book I
Cycles
Juno and Aeolus
The storm which drives Aeneas to Carthage
Neptune calms the storm: ‘Quos ego—!’
Aeneas lands in Libya, and hunts deer
Venus before Jupiter
Venus appears to Aeneas and Achates
Dido and the ghost of Sychaeus
Dido and the oxhide
The building of Carthage
Aeneas and Achates see the paintings in the temple of Juno
Aeneas and Achates appear before Dido
Dido showing Aeneas her palace
Amor in the guise of Ascanius on hhis way to Dido, bearing gifts
Dido’s banquet
Book II
The Trojan Horse and the sack of Troy (cf. Historia Troiana)
Venus prevents Aeneas from killing Helen
Creusa on her knees before Aeneas
Ascanius with a flame over his head
Aeneas flees Troy, with Anchises, Ascanius and Creusa
Aeneas flees Troy, with Anchises and Ascanius, without Creusa
Aeneas flees Troy, with Anchises only
Book III
The Trojans build their fleet
Aeneas uprooting the myrtle on the tomb of Polydorus
Aeneas at the temple of Apollo on Delos
The plague in Crete
Achaemenides the Greek
Book IV
Dido and Aeneas cycles
4th century mosaic from Low Ham, Somerset
Cassoni, workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
17th century Brussels tapestries
Tapestries and cartoons, G.F. Romanelli
17th century Flemish tapestries, Hopetoun House, Edinburgh
Frescoes, Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Perino del Vaga
Frieze, London, 20 Portman Square, Angelica Kaufmann
Dido’s sacrifice to Juno
The royal hunt and storm
Mercury calling Aeneas away from Dido
Aeneas leaving Dido
Dido abandoned/committing suicide, alone
Dido abandoned/committing suicide, with other figures
Dido and Aeneas, miscellaneous
Book V
Sacrifice at the tomb of Anchises
The ship race
The running race
The boxing match
The women burn the ships
The death of Palinurus
Book VI
Aeneas meeting the Sibyl
Misenus
Aeneas plucks the golden bough
Aeneas and the Sibyl enter the underworld
The shade of Palinurus
Crossing the Styx
Cerberus
The shade of Dido
The Elysian fields
Book VII
The Trojans pass the isle of Circe
The Trojans land in Italy
Lavinia
Allecto foments war
Ascanius shoots the stag of Silvia
Book VIII
Turnus declares war
Tiberinus appears in a dream to Aeneas
Venus presenting arms to Aeneas
Miscellaneous
Books IX-XII
Turnus besieging the Trojans
The council of the gods
Camilla
Aeneas and Ascanius sacrificing
Venus healing the wound of Aeneas
The death of Turnus
Miscellaneous
Adaptations
Argonauts
Cycles
Argonauts: miscellaneous
Jason and Pelias
Building of the Argo/first expedition of the Argonauts
Jason and the fire-breathing oxen
Jason and the dragon
The golden fleece
Jason and Creusa
Jason: single figure
Jason and Medea
Medea
Census
Cycles
Classical art
Medea and her children
Medea rejuvenating Aeson/killing Pelias
Single figure and miscellaneous scenes
Historia Thebana
Cycles
Cadmus--see Cadmus
Oedipus
Birth and finding
Oedipus and the sphinx
Miscellaneous
Jocasta
The tiger of Thebes
Tydeus
Polyneices and Eriphyle
Eteocles and Polyneices
Antigone
Adrastus
The taking of Thebes
Miscellaneous