Divine

Baccio Bandinelli
Mercury
ca. 1512
marble
(brought to France by François I in 1530,
mutilated by revolutionaries in 1793)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Mercury with Money Bag
16th century
bronze
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Leonardo Grazia (Leonardo da Pistoia)
Hebe
ca. 1535
oil on panel
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Pierino da Vinci (nephew of Leonardo)
Young River God
ca. 1547-48
marble
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Bust of Minerva
ca. 1550
bronze
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

attributed to Pierre Pénicaud
Juno
ca. 1580
enamel on copper (Limoges)
Musée du Louvre

Hendrick Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Mercury
1592
engraving
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Apollo vanquishing Python
ca. 1685-1715
marble
(originally from larger group)
Musée du Louvre

Gobelins Manufactory
Apollo
ca. 1696-97
wool and silk
(woven for Louis XIV after design by Noël Coypel)
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Giuseppe Piamontini
Juno with Peacock
ca. 1700
bronze
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Nicolas de Largillière
Francesca Turrettini as the Goddess Diana
1721
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève

Antonio Canova
Apollo
ca. 1775-76
terracotta
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Anne Seymour Damer
Portrait of Prince Henry Lubomirski as Bacchus
ca. 1777
marble
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Christophe Gabriel Allegrain
Diana surprised by Actaeon
1778
marble
(commissioned by Madame du Barry)
Musée du Louvre

Francesco la Marra
Goddess at the Bath
before 1780
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Francesco Righetti
Bust of Bacchus
ca. 1790
bronze
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Isabella Bozzolini
Cabinet Miniature of the Goddess Diana
ca. 1810
oil on vellum
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

from The Romance of the Lily

   

    From the utmost tombs of earth,

    The vision-land of death and birth,

        Came a black, malignant power,

            A spectre of the desert deep:

And it is Plague, the spotted fiend, the drunkard of the tomb;

Upon her mildewed temples the thunderbolts of doom

And blight-buds of hell's red fire, like gory wounds in bloom,

            Are twisted for a wreath;

And there's a chalice in her hand, whence bloody flashes gleam,

While struggling snakes with arrowy tongues twist o'er it for a steam,

And its liquor is of Phlegethon and Aetna's wrathful stream,

            And icy dews of death.

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1825)