Art Gallery

This link leads you to a number of famous art works inspired by mythology. This link has several purposes:

1. To provide enrichment for the course; you are encouraged to look at these art works, most of which are well known, so that you may become more informed about myth and art.

2. To provide you with possible choices for myths and art works to use when you write Essay 2.

3. To help students appreciate how myth carries over into later ages and other aspects of life.

If you have any visual impairment which prevents your successful examination of these pictures, let me know and we’ll provide an alternative opportunity. You will merely read the myths and summarize them, ignoring the pictorial images.

The Death of Icarus by Bruegel http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/icarus.jpg

Pandora by Dante Rossetti http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rossetti/rossetti35.html

Venus and Adonis by Paolo Veronese (Caliari) http://www.artehistoria.com/frames.htm?http://www.artehistoria.com/genios/pintores/c3667.htm

The Rape of Europa by Titian http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/rape_europa.jpg.html 

The Disturbing Muses by Giorgio de Chirico http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Chirico3.html 

The Laocoon Group by Hagesandros, Polydorus, and Athanadorus http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/greek/laocoon.jpg.html 

The Judgment of Paris by Rubens http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rubens/rubens50.html 

The Flaying of Marsyas by Titian http://www.abcgallery.com/T/titian/titian90.html

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli http://artchive.com/artchive/B/botticelli/venus.jpg.html

Leda and the Swan by Dali http://www.spanisharts.com/reinasofia/dali/leda.htm