Works of Art (26)
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Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina, 1805–12, Francesco Rosaspina (Italian), after an oil painting by Francesco Albani (Italian), Engraving and etching (45.78.123) |
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Bridal Chamber of Herse, Tapestry, ca. 1550, Workshop of Willem de Pannemaker (Flemish), Made/manufactured: Brussels, Southern Netherlands, Wool, silk, silver (41.190.135) |
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The Challenge of the Pierides, ca. 1600(?),
Karel van Mander (Netherlandish),
Pen and brown ink, brown wash (2007.406) |
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Clytie, 1869–70; this carving, 1872, William Henry Rinehart (American), Marble (11.68.1) |
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Diana and Actaeon, ca. 1590,
Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish),
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, white heightening, over traces of black chalk (1997.93)
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Dirty Bride, or, The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa, ca. 1566, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish), Pen and black-brown ink on white-prepared partially carved block of applewood (32.63) |
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The Dream of Aeneas, ca. 1663–66,
Salvator Rosa (Italian, Neapolitan),
Oil on canvas (65.118) |
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The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Anonymous engraver, after Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (49.97.662) |
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The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Pen and red-brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, indented for transfer (1992.376) |
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The Feast of Acheloüs, ca. 1615, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish); and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish), Oil on wood (45.141) |
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The Golden Age, 1605,
Joachim Wtewael (Dutch),
Oil on copper (1993.333)
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Hercules and Achelous in the Form of a Bull, ca. 1524–25, Giovanni (Gian) Jacopo (Giacomo) Caraglio (Italian, Veronese or Parmese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (49.50.208) |
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Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, 1624, Nicolas Poussin (French), Oil on canvas (71.56) |
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Nymphs and Satyrs in a Landscape, 1599 or before,
Joseph Heintz the Elder (Swiss),
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, red chalk, heightened with white body color, on yellow tinted paper (2007.174) |
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Omnia vincit Amor, 1599, Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bolognese) (17.3.1853) |
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Orpheus and Eurydice, probably modeled before 1887, executed 1893, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (10.63.2) |
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Ovid among the Scythians, 1862,
Eugène Delacroix (French),
Oil on paper laid down on wood (2008.101) |
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Ovidio metamorphoseos vulgare (Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Vernacular), by Giovanni Bonsignore, 2d ed. (Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, 1501), Woodcut illustrations by 15th-century Venetian school (22.16) |
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The Power of Cupid (Jupiter Disarmed), ca. 1530–50, Master of the Die (active Rome), after Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Engraving (49.97.328) |
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Priapus and Lotis, third quarter of 16th century,
Unidentified Sixteenth-Century Etcher (possibly Jacopo Bertoia, Italian, Parma), after Francesco Parmigianino (?) (Italian, Parma),
Etching (27.78.1[26]) |
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The Rape of Ganymede, 1505–15, Giovanni Battista Palumba (Master IB with the Bird) (Italian, active northern Italy and Rome), Woodcut (25.2.9) |
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Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies (?) (verso), 1642–44, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian), Drawing in red chalk, background tinted with an almost imperceptible pale brown wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso) (1973.265) |
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Venus and Adonis, ca. 1556–57, Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), after Teodoro Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving (53.522.28) |
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Venus and Adonis, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (49.7.16) |
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Vertumnus and Pomona, ca. 1760–70, François Boucher (French), Brown chalk (60.176.2) |
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Wineglass or sweetmeat cup (confittiera) with scenes of Virgil and Febilla, ca. 1475–1500,
Venice (Murano), Barovier Glass House,
Enameled and gilded glass (17.190.730a,b) |
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Thematic Essays (2)
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