Pandora

Pandora by the French painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).

Terpsichore

Terpsichore by the French Rococo painter Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766).

Lamia

Lamia by the British painter Herbert James Draper (1863-1920).

Beautiful Backsides

Aphrodite by the Italian artist Maurilio Manara (born 1945).

Danae

Danae by the French Rococo painter François Boucher (1703-1770).

Antimodern Nudes

An Eclogue (1890) by the American painter Kenyon Cox (1856-1919). Cox considered himself in opposition to modern styles and painted therefore very traditional in style and subject like this Greek pastoral scene.

Girlie Psyche

Another sweet variation of Psyche by the French Acadmic painter Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924).

Once more the Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus (1890) another interpretation by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904).

Sappho

Sappho Going to Bed (1867) by the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre (1806-1874)

Leda with the Swan

Leda by the great Austrian Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918).

Diana Hunting

Diana Hunting by the Austrian painter Hans Makart (1840-1884).

Diana Bathing

Diana Bathing (1869/1870) by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). Though Corot became famous for his landscape paintings, he was one of the founders of the Babizon School, in his beginnings he did more traditional art like this Diana.

Black Swan

Leda with the Swan (1917) by the Russian Art Nouveau painter Nikolai Kalmakov (1873-1955). Most impressing to me seems, that it’s a black swan. Was it only because of the colour or should it indicate some kind of evil?

Neoclassical Nude

Callirrhoe by the French painter Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin (1790-1870). Monvoisin depicted here a Greek naiad in a pure neoclassical style including the temple in the back.

A Goddess

Flora (1559) by the Flemish painter Jan Massys (1509-1575). One of my personal theories is, that Massys mostly painted the same girl, but she must have been something of gorgeous…

Greek Priestess

Priestess (1893) by the British painter John William Godward (1861–1922). One of the sweet girlies that Godward sold with great success as ancient priestesses.

Dying Amazon

Dying Amazon (1905) by the German painter Franz von Stuck (1863-1928). A great Art Nouveau painting, more ornament and color than realistic image. Nevertheless a very erotic piece of art.

Sappho

The famous Greek poetess Sappho short before her death-leap from the white cliff. A dark erotic painting by the French artist Charles-August Mengin (1853-1933), who was a student of Alexandre Cabanel.

Sweet Psyche

One more sweet little girl by the French artist Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924). Most are variations of the same subject.

Ceres Bacchus and Venus

Ceres Bacchus and Venus (c. 1613). A great painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).