Friday, December 28, 2012

The Huntress

Diana with her dog (c 1904) by the German painter Ferdinand Wagner (1847-1927).




Thursday, December 20, 2012

Curious Pandora

Pandora (1902) by the English painter Henry Maynell Rheam (1859-1920).




Monday, December 10, 2012

Reflective Sappho

In the Days of Sappho by the English Neoclassical painter John William Godward (1861 –1922).



Saturday, December 1, 2012

Treacherous Circe

Circe Pouring Poison into a Vase and Awaiting the Arrival of Ulysses by the English painter Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898).




Friday, November 23, 2012

Venus Anadyomène

Venus Anadyomène (1848) by the French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).




Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Judgement of Paris

The Judgement of Paris (1939) by the Austrian Nazi painter Ivo Saliger (1894-1987).




Sunday, November 4, 2012

Pythia the Oracle

Pythia (1917) by the Polish Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929).



Thursday, October 25, 2012

Diana Bathing

Diana standing by a waterfall by the English Romantic painter Willim Etty (1787-1849)




Monday, October 15, 2012

Mysterious Pandora

Pandora (1873) by the French Academic painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).




Saturday, October 6, 2012

Danae

Danae (1531) by the Italian Renaissance painter Antonio Allegri called Correggio (1489-1534).




Thursday, September 27, 2012

Seductive Venus

Venus binding her hair by the English painter John William Godward (1861 –1922).




Monday, September 17, 2012

Lonesome Ariadne

Ariadne by the English painter Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919).




Saturday, September 8, 2012

Leda and Swan

Leda and the swan by the Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).



Thursday, August 30, 2012

Fantasy Circe

Circe (1991) by the Peruvian-American Fantasy painter Boris Vallejo (*1941).




Thursday, April 19, 2012

Prying Pandora

Pandora (1896) by the British Painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917).

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Born from the Sea

The Birth of Venus (1862) by the French painter Eugène-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval (1808-1885).

Monday, March 26, 2012

Sleeping Beauty

Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos (1808-1812) by the American painter John Vanderlyn (1775–1852).

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Like Statues

The Three Graces (1793-1794) by the French Neoclassical painter Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829).

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Nude Poetress

Sappho goes to bed (1867) by the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre (1806-1874).

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Seducing Nymph

Ulysses and Circe (c.1585) by the Flemish Mannerist painter Bartholomäus Spranger (1546-1611).

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Lascivious Huntress

Diana by the Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640).

Monday, February 6, 2012

Godly Swan

Leda (1865-1875) by the French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Kind of Andromeda

Roger Freeing Angelica (1819) by the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Pin-Up Helen

Helen of Troy (1966) by the American artist Ren Wicks (1911-1998).

Saturday, January 7, 2012

A Woman Challenging Men

Medea, Theseus and Aegeus (1910) by the Scottish artist William Russell Flint (1880 - 1969).