Description | English: Illustration by Fred Mason from The Story of Alexander |
Date | 1894 |
Source | The Story of Alexander (https://archive.org/details/storyofalexander00steeuoft/page/ii/mode/2up) |
Author | Fred Mason |
Category Archives: Mythology
Salamander with Crown
Description | English: Crowned Salamander, printer’s mark of Hieronymus Scotus, Venice, middle 1500s |
Date | 1547 |
Source | De lumbricis alvum occupantibus, ac de ratione curandi eos (https://archive.org/details/delumbricisalvum00gabu) |
Author | Anonymous |
Sibyl
Description | English: Sibyl, printer’s mark of Michele Tramezzino of Venice |
Date | 1549 |
Source | De Antiquitatibus urbis Romae (https://archive.org/details/deantiqvitatibvs00faun/page/n3/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Two-Tailed Mermaid or Siren
Description | English: Two-tailed mermaid used as printer’s mark by the heirs of Petrus Ravanus in Venice |
Date | 1550 |
Source | Grammaticae institutiones (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_fFJHW0aDyzQC/page/n697/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Amphion Building Thebes
Description | English: Amphion moves stones to build Thebes by the sound of his lyre (which looks like a viola) |
Date | 1655 |
Source | Tableaux du temple des Muses (https://archive.org/details/tableauxdutemple00maro_0/page/n453/mode/2up) |
Author | Abraham van Diepenbeeck |
Atlas
Description | English: Atlas supporting the heavens |
Date | 1655 |
Source | Tableaux du temple des Muses (https://archive.org/details/tableauxdutemple00maro_0/page/n433/mode/2up) |
Author | Signed “A.D.” |
Agave with the Head of Pentheus
Description | English: Agave with the head of Pentheus. In her right she grasps by the hair the head of her son, in her left a thyrsus capped with leaves and trimmed with floating ribbands. Her head is violently thrown back, and the lower part of the drapery is tossed about as she dances for joy. The woodcut is enlarged, by one-third, from a ‘paste’ in the gem-cabinet of the British Museum. |
Date | 1880 (from an ancient gem) |
Source | Bacchae of Euripides (https://archive.org/details/bacchaeofeuripid00euriuoft/page/72/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Tiber
Description | English: “Image of the Tiber River in marble, the work of an excellent artist, in the Vatican garden of the Popes in Rome.” Latina: Tiberis Fluvii simulacrum è marmore excellentis artificis opus, in Vaticano Pontificum viridario Romae. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
Laocoon
Description | English: “Statue of Laocoon, made from marble with wondrous art, in the Pontifical garden, Rome, not as described by Virgil or Pliny but after the description of the Greek Poets.” Latina: Laocoontis signum e marmore mira arte factum in Pontificio viridario, Romae non quale à Virgilio, ac Plinio, sed cuiusmodi à Gracis Poetis describitur. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
Gorgon Headpiece by Adolfo de Carolis
Description | English: Decoration by Adolfo de Carolis for Francesca da Rimini by Gabriele d’Annunzio |
Date | 1902 |
Source | Francesca da Rimini (https://archive.org/details/francescadarimin02dann/page/n7/mode/2up) |
Author | Adolfo de Carolis |