Many of the artists shown here are very famous especially in the art world.
It makes you wonder, did the artist become famous because of their depictions of Greek mythology or did the painting become famous because of the artist?
Paris, FRANCE
1. The Triumph of Virtue
Athena casts out Aphrodite from the Garden of Virtue.
Artist: Andrea Mantegna (c. 1502)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
2. Aphrodite, Cupid and Ares
The three Olympians are seen together.
Artist: Lambert Sustris (c. 1548-1550)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
3. Cupid and Psyche
Psyche gets a kiss from Cupid.
Artist: Francois Gerard (1798)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
4. Mount Parnassus
Aphrodite and Ares have a party on Mt. Parnassus.
Artist: Andrea Mantegna (c. 1502)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
5. Apollo and Daphne
Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1743-1744)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
6. Artemis resting after her bath
Artemis with a friend.
Artist: Francois Bouchin (c. 1742)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
7. The Raft Of The Medusa
The fate of a few people who made a raft after a ship called the Medusa was shipwrecked off the coast of Africa. The survivors and casualties on a makeshift raft can be seen calling for help when they see another ship in the distance that could possibly save them. Why would anyone call a ship Medusa?
Artist: Theodore Gericault (c. 1819)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
8. Eva Prima Pandora
Artist: Jean Cousin (c. 1540)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
9. Perseus rescuing Andromeda
Artist: Joachim Wtewael (1611)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
10. Oedipus and the Sphinx
Artist: Jean-Auguste-Domenique Ingres (1808-1827)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
11. Cupid and Psyches
Artist: François-Édouard Picot (1817)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
12. The capture of Deianeira
A Centaur captures the wife of Hercules.
Artist: Guido Reni (c. 1620-1621)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
13. Icarus and Daedalus
Artist: Charles Landon (c. 1799)
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Keep in mind: Sometimes paintings are loaned to other museums. For instance this painting has been on loan to the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle d’Alençon.
14. The Apollo Gallery at the Louvre, Paris ( Galerie D’Apollon at the Louvre, Paris)
At the end of the hallway you can see a painting of Neptune (Poseidon) and Amphitrite.
A major attraction in the Apollo gallery is this painting.
Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
15. Zeus and Thetis
The sea nymph Thetis urges Zeus to help her son Achilles in the Trojan War.
Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1811)
Location: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France
16. Theseus and the Minotaur, from the story of Theseus
Here’s a closer look of the round labyrinth shown on the right hand side of the painting.
Artist: Master of the Campana Cassoni (c. 1510)
Location: Musee du Petit Palais, Avignon, France
Chantilly, FRANCE
17. The Three Graces
Artist: Raphael (c. 1503-1505)
Location: Musée Condé of Chantilly, Château de Chantilly, Chantilly, France
Versailles, FRANCE
18. Dispute between Minerva and Neptune over the Naming of the City of Athens
Artist: René-Antoine Houasse (c. 1689-1706)
Location: Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
19. Plafond-Salon d’Apollon
Ceiling painting of Apollo riding his chariot.
Artist: Charles de La Fosse (c. 1674)
Location: Versailles Palace, France
20. The Apotheosis of Hercules
From another view point.
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