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| Anonymous French Artist Truth presenting a Mirror to the World ca. 1630 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Pietro da Cortona Laban seeking his Idols ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Death of Achilles (tapestry design) ca. 1630-35 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Jacob Jordaens Maidservant with Basket of Fruit ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Cornelis van Poelenburgh Jupiter and Antiope ca. 1630 oil on panel National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
ANTIOPE – In Greek legend, the mother of Amphion and Zethus, and, according to Homer, a daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus. In later poems she is called the daughter of Nycteus or Lycurgus. Her beauty attracted Zeus, who, assuming the form of a satyr, took her by force. After this she was carried off by Epopeus, king of Sicyon, who would not give her up till compelled by her uncles Lycus. On the way home she gave birth, in the neighbourhood of Eleutherae on Mount Cithaeron, to the twins Amphion and Zethus, of whom Amphion was the son of the god, and Zethus the son of Epopeus. Both were left to be brought up by herdsmen. At Thebes Antiope now suffered from the persecution of Dirce, the wife of Lycus, but at last escaped towards Eleutherae, and there found shelter, unknowingly, in the house where her two sons were living as herdsmen. Here she was discovered by Dirce, who ordered the two young men to tie her to the horns of a wild bull. They were about to obey, when the old herdsman, who had brought them up, revealed his secret, and they carried out the punishment on Dirce instead. For this, it is said, Dionysus, to whose worship Dirce was devoted, visited Antiope with madness, which caused her to wander restlessly all over Greece till she was cured, and married by Phocus of Tithorea, on Mount Parnassus, where both were buried in one grave.
– Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
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| Michelangelo Cerquozzi Flora as Personification of Spring (from series - The Four Seasons) ca. 1630-40 oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Daniel Mytens Portrait of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick 1633 oil on canvas National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire |
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| Guercino Venus and Cupid 1634 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Guercino Mars as Warrior 1634 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| John Souch Sir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of his Wife 1635 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Louis-Ferdinand Elle the Younger Portrait of Louis XIII ca. 1636 oil on canvas Chiswick House, London |
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| Alonso Cano St John the Evangelist's Vision of Jerusalem ca. 1635-38 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Guido Reni Abduction of Europa ca. 1637-39 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and Dorothy, Viscountess Andover ca. 1637 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport and George, Lord Goring ca. 1639 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |