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[solcattus]

Spanish Women on the Balcony

By Georges Clairin

[classicalcanvas]

Roman Architecture (1907) by John Singer Sargent

[mythologypaintings]

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Artist: Johann Michael Rottmayr (Austrian, 1654–1730)

Date: c. 1695

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

[weepingwidar]

Nancy Friedland (Canadian, 1971) - Let Me See Your Beauty When the Witnesses Are Gone (2021)

[weepingwidar]

Laura Benson (American, 1997) - Celestial Event (2025)

[galleryofart]

The Annunciation

Artist: George Hitchcock (American, 1850–1913)

Date: 1887

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

In George Hitchcock’s unusual presentation of the Annunciation, the virgin is depicted as a Dutch peasant girl standing in a field of lilies. Traditionally, the lily is a symbol of the angel Gabriel, and Mary’s downcast eyes and humble stance imply that she has received his divine message.

[classicalcanvas]

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy (1907) by John Singer Sargent

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Maria Virgo

Artist: May Louise Greville Cooksey (British, 1878–1943)

Date: 1915

Medium: Oil on board

Collection: Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, England

Maria Virgo

The painting shows a medieval style portrait of a woman, Maria Virgo or the Virgin Mary, with a halo around her thinly veiled head and some lilies in her hand. The title appears in the top left corner of the image in a medieval style script. The Annunciation Lily signifies Divine Love. The three fully opened blooms represent the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit.

[requiem-on-water]

The Death Of Sappho (detail, 1896) by Charles Amable Lenoir

[weepingwidar]

Jacek Yerka (Polish, 1952) - Metropolis II (1989)

[thunderstruck9]

Jacek Yerka (Polish, 1952), Metropolis II, 1989. Acrylic on canvas, 31 3/4 x 35 in.

[classicalcanvas]

A Capriote (1878) by John Singer Sargent

[rosieandthemoon]

By Konstantin Vasilyev, 1967

[mythologypaintings]

Bacchus and Ariadne

Artist: Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)

Date: ca. 1685-1686

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Description

This oil on canvas painting illustrates the first meeting of Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete, and Bacchus, the god of wine. Ariadne was deserted by Theseus after helping him escape the Labyrinth. In the painting, she sadly sleeps by the water's edge, heartbroken; putti, satyrs, Bacchus and other celebrants sneak up on the slumbering Ariadne. Bacchus falls in love with her, forecast by the crown of stars above her, and they marry.

[oldpaintings]

Eva Gonzalès  (French, 1849–1883)

[artssie]

Joyful Christmas / Glade Jul (1891) by Viggo Johansen

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Blue Bird

Artist: Frank Cadogan Cowper (English, 1877-1958)

Date: Exhibited 1918

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Cowper shows the lovers enjoying one of these trysts, the princess holding a rope of pearls that the Blue Bird has evidently just given her. The story was retold by Andrew Lang in his Green Fairy Book (1892), one of the eleven 'coloured' Fairy Books that he produced for Longmans between 1889 and 1910.

[weepingwidar]

Pierre Knop (German, 1982) - Untitled (2025)