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These works depict the American wood sculptor William Rush in 1808, carving his statue Water Nymph and Bittern for a fountain at Philadelphia's first waterworks. The water nymph is an allegorical figure representing the Schuylkill River , which provided the city's drinking water, and on her shoulder is a bittern , a native waterbird related to ...
Hylas and the Nymphs is an 1896 oil painting by John William Waterhouse.The painting depicts a moment from the Greek and Roman legend of the tragic youth Hylas, based on accounts by Ovid and other ancient writers, in which the enraptured Hylas is abducted by Naiads (female water nymphs) while seeking drinking water.
Hylas is also mentioned in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II: "Not Hylas was more mourned for of Hercules / Than thou hast been of me since thy exile" (Act I, Scene I, line 142-3). Oscar Wilde mentions Hylas at least six times in his published works.
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Nymphs and Satyr ( French : Nymphes et Satyre ) is an oil on canvas painting created by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1873. The painting depicts a satyr and a group of nymphs from Greek mythology .
The nymph Salmacis raped Hermaphroditus and fused with him when he tried to escape. The water nymph associated with particular springs was known all through Europe in places with no direct connection with Greece, surviving in the Celtic wells of northwest Europe that have been rededicated to Saints, and in the medieval Melusine .
Juturna was an ancient Latin deity of fountains, [3] who in some myths was turned by Jupiter into a water nymph – a Naiad – and given by him a sacred well in Lavinium, Latium, [4] as well as another one near the temple to Vesta in the Forum Romanum. Her original home was said to be on the mythological river Numicius. [2]
Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto is a 1634 painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.It is now in the Salm-Salm princely collection in the Wasserburg Anholt in Anholt, Germany.
Silver decadrachm of Arethusa, minted in Syracuse, Sicily (405–400 BCE). In Greek mythology, Arethusa (/ ˌ ær ɪ ˈ θj uː z ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα) was a nymph who fled from her home in Arcadia beneath the sea and came up as a fresh water fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily.