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Mythological Figures & Creatures
Myth offered artists a shared language for desire, courage, punishment, metamorphosis, and power. This guide gathers classical figures and creatures for storytelling, research, concept art, and cultural-history projects.
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- Classics and mythology lessons
- Concept-art moodboards
- Editorial symbolism research
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Tusk with Figurative Relief
Paven tronende mellem en engel og ærkeenglen Mikael, der har nedstyrtet en tyrker
The Birth of Venus
Passion of Jesus Christ: The Descent into Limbo
The Wine Press
Ornamental fillet with the crucifixion and the virgin and child
Tiburtine Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Virgin and Child with St. John
The Angel of the Eighth Sphere (from the Tarocchi, series A: Firmaments of the Universe, #48)
The Angel of the Ninth Sphere (from the Tarocchi, series A: Firmaments of the Universe, #49)
The Cassollette: Women Supporting an Urn
The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul
The Apocalypse: The Angel in the Sun Calling the Birds of Prey
And All Manner of Frightful Creatures Arise
Neptune Calming the Tempest That Aeolus Raised Against Aeneas's Fleet
Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn
Poesis
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret
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Massacre of the Innocents (With the Fir Tree)
Massacre of the Innocents without the Fir Tree
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Saint Christopher
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Tobias and the Angel (small plate)
Adam and Eve
The Adoration of the Magi
Diana
Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist
The Sacrifice of Isaac, Tobias and the Angel, The Angels Appearing to Abraham, Abraham Welcoming the Three Angels (painting series)
Saint John the Baptist
The Apocalypse: The Angel Sounding the Sixth Trumpet
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation, Nativity and Two Prophets
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear
The Annunciation
Fragment of a Capital with Scenes from Mary’s Infancy
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