Oct 11, 2023
Oct 08, 2023
Iphigenia by Anselm Feuerbach, 1862
Jul 16, 2023
Bacchante by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1886
Jul 15, 2023
Sappho in Lefkada by Gustave Moreau, 1860
Jul 14, 2023
Apollo by Nicolo Grassi, 1682-1748
Jul 13, 2023
Alexander the Great by Gaspare Diziani, 1740
Jul 12, 2023
Vulcan and Maia by Bartholomeus Spranger,1580
Jul 09, 2023
Democritus in Meditation by Salvator Rosa, 1662
Jul 08, 2023
Cheerful Democritus by Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1746
Jul 07, 2023
Cleonice by John William Godward, 1913
Jul 06, 2023
The Fall of Icarus by Honore Daumier,1842
Jul 05, 2023
Andromache by Georges Marie Rochegrosse, 1883
Jul 04, 2023
In the Tepidarium by John William Godward, 1913
Jul 02, 2023
Bacchante by Frederic Leighton, 1895
Jun 30, 2023
Medea by Anthony Frederick Augustus, 1868
Jun 27, 2023
Pandora by Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, 1871
Jun 24, 2023
Tekemessa and Eurysakes by Henry Fuseli, 1800-1810
Jun 18, 2023
The Torture of Prometheus by Gustave Moreau
Jun 11, 2023
Medea by Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix,1838
Jun 03, 2023
Poet's Inspiration by Marco Rossi,1785
May 29, 2023
Penelope by Percy MacQuoid 1883
May 26, 2023
Apollo and Daphne by Theodore Chasseriau, 1845
May 24, 2023
Phryne before the Areopagus by Jean-Leon Gerome 1861
May 22, 2023
Polycrates And The Fisherman by Salvator Rosa 1664
May 21, 2023
The Dream Of Orestes by Francois Dubois 1790-1871
May 20, 2023
Women of Amphissa by Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1887
The Women of Amphissa. It was inspired by an historical event recorded by Plutarch, a Greek historian, biographer and essayist. This painting shows the morning after a celebration of Bacchus/Dionysus, the God of wine and ritual madness. This celebration caused a group of women to wander into the city of Amphissa from Phocis. Despite these two cities being at war, the women of Amphissa allowed the women from Phocis to fall asleep in their marketplace and stood guard throughout the night to…
May 19, 2023
The Temple of Apollo by Giovanni Ruggero
May 18, 2023
Venus and Cupid by Lambert Sustris 1554
May 17, 2023
Socrates reproaching Alcibiades by Anton Petter 1819
May 16, 2023
Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadem 1881
May 14, 2023
Apollo and Marsyas by Jusepe de Ribera 1637
May 12, 2023
Patroclus by Jacques-Louis David 1780
May 11, 2023
Milo of Croton attacked by a Lion by Charles Meynier 1795
Milo (or Milon) of Croton was a legendary Greek wrestler from the Greek settlement of Croton in southern Italy. He won the wrestling contest at five successive Olympic Games, and swept the board at all other festivals. A man of huge stature, he boasted that no one had ever brought him to his knees. It is said that he carried a live ox upon his shoulders through the stadium at Olympia, then ate it all in a single day. Tradition has it that in his old age, on seeing an oak tree partly split open…
May 10, 2023
Happy Arcadia by Konstantin Makovsky 1890
May 09, 2023
Helen of Troy by Frederick Sandys-Walker 1867
May 08, 2023
Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David 1814
May 07, 2023
Phyllis and Demophoon by Edward Burne-Jones 1870
The Phyllis & Demophoon painting by Sir Edward Burne-Jones is based on the Greek myth of Phyllis and Demophoon. In the story, Demophoon and Phyllis fell in love after the conquest of Troy. Demophoon stayed with Phyllis the king's daughter at Thracian court where they agreed to marry but he had to go for six months to Attica where his father Theseus was.
May 06, 2023
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse 1903
May 04, 2023
Alexander and Diogenes by Gaspare Diziani 1740
May 03, 2023
Death Of Sappho by Miguel Carbonell Selva 1880
May 01, 2023
Berenice by Bernardo Strozzi 1640
Find us at social media
Contact us at info@hellenologio.gr - Privacy Policy