Mythology

Gods, heroes and monsters have given artists stories to paint for more than two and a half thousand years. From Greek vases and Botticelli’s Venus to Thor, the Kalevala and the Japanese thunder gods, mythology shows how people have interpreted love, power, nature and death.

• The Greek gods take shape
• Botticelli and the return of Venus
• Titian, Raphael and the Venetian poesie
• Baroque metamorphoses
• Neoclassicism, the Salon and Symbolism
• Aesir, giants and the Kalevala: Norse mythology in art
• China: goddesses, immortals and demon hunters
• Japan: the sun goddess, the wind god and ghosts
• Myth in modern times: the Minotaur, Narcissus and Milles