Dieux

Carle Vanloo
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan
ca. 1735
oil on canvas
Hood Museum of Art,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Bob Thompson
Triumph of Bacchus
1964
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio after Rosso Fiorentino
Jupiter
1526
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Jacob Binck
after Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio after Rosso Fiorentino
Jupiter
1530
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebastiano Galeotti
Bacchus and Ceres attended by Putti and Marine Deity
before 1746
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

David Teniers the Younger
Birth of Jupiter
ca. 1650-60
oil on panel
Detroit Institute of Arts 

Lubin Baugin
Childhood of Jupiter
1640
oil on canvas
Musée Saint-Loup, Troyes

Le Nain Brothers
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan
1641
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Cristofano Gherardi
Pluto
1555
fresco
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

John Baptist Jackson after Giambologna
Neptune
ca. 1730-40
chiaroscuro woodcut
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Guillaume Coustou the Younger
Aphrodite
ca. 1750
limestone (demi-relief)
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Simone Cantarini (il Pesarese)
Jupiter and Neptune
(study for Apotheosis of Cardinal Borghese)
ca. 1642
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hendrik van der Borcht the Younger after Parmigianino
Saturn as winged horse seducing the oceanid Philyra
ca. 1638
etching
British Museum

Roman Anton Boos
Vulcan
ca. 1780
terracotta statuette
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Andries Cornelis Lens
Zeus on Mount Ida put to sleep by Hera
1775
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Frank Auerbach
Bacchus and Ariadne
1971
oil on board
Tate Modern, London

Antoine-Jean Gros
Bacchus and Ariadne
1820
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

from Hymn to Aphrodite

And he took her hand,

and she, Aphrodite, Laughterlover,

turned aside her face

and cast her eyes on the ground,

and she walked, slowly, to the bed,

and the bed was set with smooth cloths

and with the skins of bears and lions

                    he had killed, in the mountains, on the high slopes,

and they went up into the bed,

and he loosed her flashing jewelry,

her pins, and her twisted brooches,

                                        and her earrings, and her necklaces,

and he loosed her sash and her shimmering robe

and folded them and set them on a silver-studded chair,

and he lay with her,

Anchises,

a man with a goddess,

for it was the will of the gods and fate, and he knew not clearly,

he knew not clearly. 

– Homeric Hymns (8th-6th century BC), translated by John D. Niles (1969)