The story of Ulysses’ encounter with the Cyclops Polyphemus is told by a survivor from the Odyssey. Superb paintings by Turner, Böcklin, Reni, and others.
Eckersberg
Including Thor, Odin, Valkyries, Freya, Loki, and Baldr, with a selection of fine paintings rather than book illustrations.
Classical history paintings are rarer than those of myth. Even fewer show the most anomalous of classical societies: the Spartans.
You’d think a painting of him in battle would be ideal, not one of him being dragged from a brothel.
Had he been French or British, he would probably have been rated as one of the greatest painters of the 1800s.
The Eclectic Light Company 