Antoine Gibelin-Esprit Achilles battling the River Scamander 1770 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
Jacques-Louis David The Anger of Achilles 1819 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
Felice Boselli Diana and Actaeon ca. 1704 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
Ignaz Elhafen Diana and Callisto ca. 1690 ivory relief Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
Anonymous French Artist Struggle of Titans 17th century marble fragment Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
Johann Michael Rottmayr Jove casting Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants ca. 1690-95 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Martin Johann Schmidt Ulysses seizing Astyanax from Andromache ca. 1760 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Johann August Nahl the Younger Venus protecting Helen from the Wrath of Aeneas 1793 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Felix Jan Ferdinand Heyndrickx Hector censuring Paris and Helen ca. 1820 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
Giuseppe Diotti Antigone condemned to Death by Creon 1845 oil on canvas Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia after Andrea Mantegna Hercules and Antaeus ca. 1490-1500 engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola) Hercules and Antaeus ca. 1705-1710 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) Hercules and Antaeus ca. 1488-89 bronze plaquette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Jean-François de Troy Pan and Syrinx 1733 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Francesco Furini Hylas and the Nymphs ca. 1632 oil on canvas Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
Salvador Dalí Theseus and the Minotaur 1942 oil on canvas (study for stage curtain) Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
Her Triumph
I did the dragon's will until you came
Because I had fancied love a casual
Improvisation, or a settled game
That followed if I let the kerchief fall:
Those deeds were best that gave the minutes wings
And heavenly music if they gave it wit;
And then you stood among the dragon-rings,
I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it
And broke the chain and set my ankles free,
Saint George or else a pagan Perseus;
And now we stare astonished at the sea,
And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.
– W.B. Yeats (1933)
– W.B. Yeats (1933)