Picturing Narrative: Greek Mythology in the Visual Arts
Teaching Gallery
The myths of ancient Greece have inspired artists from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The transference of a myth from words to images is never straightforward. Picturing Narrative: Greek Mythology in the Visual Arts examines how visual artists have both reflected and influenced the way Greek myths are portrayed and understood. Ancient vases and coins join works by artists such as Alan Davie, Raoul Dufy, and Pablo Picasso, showing how artists capture moments from myths, reveal the relationship between myth and daily life, alter and add to the stories, and shape our perceptions of mythological characters.
Picturing Narrative is curated by Timothy J. Moore, John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics, in conjunction with his course "Greek Mythology," offered by the Washington University Department of Classics in the College of Arts & Sciences in fall 2014.
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Selected works
![4308.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4308.jpg)
Marcantonio Raimondi
Judgment of Paris
c. 1517–20![4061.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4061.tif.jpg)
Alan Davie
Transformation of the Wooden Horse I
1960![3279.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3279.jpg)
Athena Painter
Lekythos
525–500 BC![3274.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3274.jpg)
Long-Nose Painter
Neck Amphora
540–525 BC![4358.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4358.jpg)
School of Orazio Fontana
How Cadmus Killed the Serpent
c. 1540![3794.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3794.tif.jpg)
André Racz
Perseus Beheading Medusa, VIII
1945![4423_recto_crop](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4423_recto_crop.jpg)
Rosso Fiorentino
Pluto with Cerberus at His Feet (verso: Mercury)
16th century![4261.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4261.tif.jpg)
Gustave Moreau
Jeune fille de Thrace portant la tête d'Orphée (Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus)
c. 1865![3273.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3273.jpg)
Diosphos Painter
Lekythos
500–490 BC![3272.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3272.jpg)
C Painter
Siana Cup
560–550 BC![3269.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3269.jpg)
CA Painter
Bell Krater
mid-4th century BC![3281.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3281.jpg)
Eleusinian Painter
Vase Fragment
mid-4th century BC![1994_01.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1990_1999/1994_01.tif.jpg)
Romare Bearden
Black Venus
1968![4160.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4160.jpg)
Raoul Dufy
Aphrodite aux papillons (Aphrodite with Butterflies)
c. 1938![3270.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3270.jpg)
Unknown (Greek, Attic)
Squat Lekythos
Early 4th Century BC![1986_4_1.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1986_4_1.jpg)
Jiří Anderle
Bacchus (Bacco)
1982![3845.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3845.jpg)
Pablo Picasso
Satyr's Head
1949![3283.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3283.jpg)
Terpaulos Painter
Trefoil Oinochoe
500–490 BCTeaching Gallery
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