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  2. Category:Paintings of Greek myths - Wikipedia

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    A. Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore. Allegory of Wisdom and Strength. Andromache Mourning Hector. Apollo as Victor over Pan. Ariadne (Giorgio de Chirico painting) Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus. Ariane in Naxos. Atalanta and Hippomenes.

  3. Bacchus and Ariadne - Wikipedia

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    Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523) [1] is an oil painting by Titian. It is one of a cycle of paintings on mythological subjects produced for Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro – a private room in his palazzo in Ferrara decorated with paintings based on classical texts. An advance payment was given to Raphael, who ...

  4. The Birth of Venus - Wikipedia

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    Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in). Uffizi, Florence. Detail: the face of Venus. The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth ...

  5. Leda and the Swan - Wikipedia

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    Roman oil lamp, 1st century AD. Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her ...

  6. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    The art of ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years, traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages.

  7. The Last Supper (Leonardo) - Wikipedia

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    The Last Supper. The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo [il tʃeˈnaːkolo] or L'Ultima Cena [ˈlultima ˈtʃeːna]) is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

  8. Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons - Wikipedia

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    Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons. Central motive of the Medusa mosaic, 2nd century BCE, from Kos island, in the palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, in Rhodes city, island of Rhodes, Greece. Medusa and the other Gorgon sisters, Stheno and Euryale, have been featured in art and culture spanning from the days of ancient ...

  9. Apelles - Wikipedia

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    Apelles of Kos (/ əˈpɛliːz /; Greek: Ἀπελλῆς; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79–97 and passim), rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad ...

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