Toscano

Phaon was said to be so beautiful that even the Greek poetess Sappho fell in love with him. Count Nikolai Yusupov commissioned this fine work complete with kneeling Cupid and a scroll of verses to...

The sorrowful eyes of Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, fortell his sad departure from his love, the beautiful nymph Eucharis. In true Neoclassical style, French artist David used a clarity of line...

In the genre of the sacra conversazione, or sacred conversation, the Holy Mother and Child convey timeless truths with their simple presence as Mary Magdalene and a young John the Baptist look on. An...

Cecilia Gallerani, the mistress of Leonardo's employer, Lodovico Sforza, was a 16-year-old known for her beauty, scholarship and poetry. One of only four female portraits by da Vinci and the one...

As in the poem by John Keats that inspired this romantic work, a knight is enchanted - and then left without mercy - by a beautiful young maiden. Waterhouse, one of the most popular of the...

The beautiful and powerful sorceress Circe, after already transforming his men into swine-like beasts, offers the cup of seduction to Ulysses. Beguilingly swathed in gauzy blue gossamer, Waterhouse's...

The beautiful and powerful sorceress Circe, after already transforming his men into swine-like beasts, offers the cup of seduction to Ulysses. Beguilingly swathed in gauzy blue gossamer, Waterhouse's...

Waking from sleep amidst the olive trees to meet the face of Love, the beautiful maiden meets grace, whether the viewer interprets it as a divine annunciation or the timeless capture of the heart...

In striking contrast to the white blanket of snow, somber Death spreads her powerful wings over even the digger of graves. A German Symbolist painter, Charles Schwabe, inspired by the demise of a...

The beautiful sea sirens in this richly colored work by Draper seem just as fleshly and real as they must have been to Ulysses and his sailors who plugged their ears with wax to resist their tempting...

A brave medieval knight saves his fair, imperiled maiden in this virtuously illustrative tale executed with textural fluidity and rich orchestrations of color. A British painter and illustrator who...

A brave medieval knight saves his fair, imperiled maiden in this virtuously illustrative tale executed with textural fluidity and rich orchestrations of color. A British painter and illustrator who...