Greco/Roman Myths in Art

The Greco-Roman myths have persisted in the Western cultural imagination for over two millennia. Literally countless artists have depicted these stories on stage, on film, in poetry, in literature, in stone, in metal, and canvas. Click on the artists' names below to view a sampling their works that depict these stories and characters.

Eros and Psyche

Anonymous (310-240 BCE)

Anonymous (4th century CE)

Giulio Romano (1526-27)

Giovanni Battista Franco

Pierre Reymond (1558)

Giovanni Battista Castella (c. 1560-70)

Anonymous (c. 1600-1650)

Anthony van Dyke (c. 1620-1640)

Padovanino (1630s)

Jan van Orley (1700-1720)

François Boucher (18th century)

François Boucher (1741-42)

Antonio Canova (1783-93)

Max Klinger (1880)

Vertumnus and Pomona

Master IHS (1561)

Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1577-1640)

Jacob Matham (c. 1571-1631)

Giuseppe Arcimboldi (1590)

Jan Pietersz Saenredam (1605)

Anthony Van Dyke (c. 1625)

Paulus Moreelse (c. 1630)

Attributed to Cesar van Everdingen (c. 1650)

François Boucher (c. 1703 – 1770)

Studio of François Boucher (1757)

Virgil Solis

Myrrha

Anonymous (1549)

Anonymous (1551)

Anonymous (1582)

Bernard Picart and workshop (1732)

Gustave Dore (1857)

Virgil Solis

Virgil Solis

Virgil Solis

Erysichthon

John Lydgate (15th century)

Antonio Tempesta (1606)

Antonio Tempesta (1606)

Abraham Aubry, after a design by Johann Wilhelm Baur (1685)

Johann Ulrich Kraus (1694)

Bernard Picart and workshop (1732)

Virgil Solis

Virgil Solis

Virgil Solis

Alcyone and Ceyx

Christine de Pisan (15th century)

Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1495-1500)

Anonymous (1551)

Antonio Tempesta (1606)

Antonio Tempesta (1606)

Abraham Aubry, after a design by Johann Wilhelm Baur (1685)

Abraham Aubry, after a design by Johann Wilhelm Baur (1685)

Johann Ulrich Kraus (1694)

Bernard Picart (1732)

William Woollet (1769)

Midas

Antonio Tempesta (1606)

Nicolas Poussin (after 1624)

Nicolas Poussin (c. 1626)

Nicolas Poussin (c. 1627)

Johann Ulrich Kraus (1694)

Bernard Picart and workshop (1732)

Arthur Frank Mathews (1888)

Virgil Solis

Orpheus and Eurydice

Anonymous (2nd century CE)

Michele Ciampanti (c. 1500)

Michele Ciampanti (c. 1500)

Michele Ciampanti (c. 1500)

Titian (c. 1510)

Peter Vischer II (c. 1515)

Anonymous (1551)

Agostino Carracci (c. 1594-97)

Anonymous

Antonio Tempesta (1606)

Peter Paul Rubens (1636-38)

Nicolas Poussin (c. 1650)

Scipione Compagno (17th century)

Jean Raoux (c. 1709)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1724-25)

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1860s)

Eugene Delacroix (1862)

Auguste Rodin (1893)

Baucis and Philemon

Virgil Solis

Anonymous (1582)

Anonymous (1582)

Hendrik Goudt (1612)

Abraham Aubry, after a design by Johann Wilhelm Baur (1685)

Johann Ulrich Kraus (1694)

Bernard Picart (1732)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1801)

Louis René Boquet (costume for the Paris Opera)

Narcissus

Anonymous (1st century CE)

Anonymous (1st century CE)

Anonymous (1st century CE)

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung (c. 1300)

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung (1348)

Guillaume de Lorris (mid-14th century)

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung (c. 1390)

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung (c. 1400)

Anonymous (late 15th century)

Anonymous (16th century)

Anonymous (c. 1530-40)

Gaspar Reverdino

Anonymous (1551)

Benvenuto Cellini (1548-1557)

Caravaggio (c. 1597)

Antonio Tempesta (1606)

Gerard van Kuijl (1640-45)

François Lemoyne (1725-28)

Honore Daumier (1842)

John Ruskin (1881)

Magnus Enckell (1896-97)

Constantin Brancusi (c. 1910)