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Greek Gods and Heroes in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt Contents 7 Foreword CATALOGUE Gerbrand van den Eeckhout M. Haagsma, M. Lambraki-Plaka, J.M. de 196 Hermes, Argus and Io Groot and P.J. Schoon Paintings Caesar van Everdingen 9 Preface Anonymous 198 Zeus and Callisto 158 Antwerp cabinet with 12 mythological P.J. Schoon, S. Paarlberg and A. Tamvaki scenes Barent Fabritius 200 The Satyr and the Peasant 11 Lenders to the Exhibition Hendrik van Balen 160 Artemis and Actaeon Govaert Flinck 12 Committee of Honour 202 Sleeping Eros Nicolaes Berchem 162 Hippocrates visits Democritus Pauwels Franck (Paolo Fiammingo) 204 The Five Senses Cornells Bisschop 206 The Birth of Athena from Zeus' ESSAYS 164 Hermes, Argus and lo Head 166 Self-Portrait 15 BETWEEN OLYMPUS AND MERWEDE. Jacques de Gheyn II GREEK GODS AND HEROES IN DUTCH Anthonie Blocklandt 208 Poseidon and Amphitrite CULTURE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 168 Aphrodite disarming Eros AND THE RENAISSANCE Hendrick Goltzius Eric M. Moormann Abraham Bloemaert 210 Zeus and Antiope 170 Aphrodite and Adonis 212 Hera receives the eyes of Argus from 35 PRESTIGE AND EMULATION, EROTI- 172 Leto and the Lycian Farmers Hermes CISM AND MORALITY: MYTHOLOGY AND THE NUDE IN DUTCH PAINTING Ferdinand Bol Willem van Haecht OF THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY 174 A Couple with Child as Aphrodite, Paris 214 Apelles paints Campaspe Eric Jan Sluijter and Eros 176 Allegory of Education Maarten van Heemskerck 65 OF OLYMPIAN GODS, HOMERIC 178 Aphrodite and Adonis 216 The Judgement of Paris HEROES AND AN ANTWERP APELLES. 180 Aphrodite and Adonis 218 Heracles OBSERVATIONS ON THE FUNCTION Poseidon AND 'MEANING' OF MYTHOLOGICAL Leonaert Bramer THEMES IN THE AGE OF RUBENS 182 The Sacrifice oflphigenia Simon Jacobsz. de Vlieger (1600-1650) The Quarrel between Ajax and Odysseus 220 The Burning of Troy Nora de Poorter Jan de Braij Gerard Hoet 87 REMBRANDT AND CLASSICAL 184 A Couple as Odysseus and Penelope 222 Landcape with Apollo and Daphne MYTHOLOGY Landscape with Pan and Syrinx Stefan Grohe Johannes van Bronchorst 224 The Marriage of Alexander the Great and 186 Eos Roxane ofBactria 107 THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SOUTH. Queen Ckophis Offers wine to Alexander the FLEMISH AND DUTCH PAINTERS IN Jan Brueghel I Great After the Conquering ofMazaka ITALY IN THE 16TH CENTURY 188 Aeneas in the Underworld Angela Tamvaki Cornelis Holsteyn Jacob van Campen 226 The Mourning of Adonis 129 GREEK GODS AND HEROES IN 190 Diogenes looking for a Man PRINTS Abraham Hondius Ilja M. Veldman Aelbert Cuyp 228 Callisto and Areas 192 Orpheus charming the Animals 149 EARLY EDITIONS OF OVID'S Gerard van Honthorst METAMORPHOSES Anthony van Dyck 230 Aphrodite and Adonis Ben Hijmans 194 Achilles discovered among the Daughters ofLycomedes Arnold Houbraken 232 Athena visits Apollo and the Muses Abraham Janssens Peter Paul Rubens 341 Biographies 234 Heracles, Pan and Omphale 284 The Fall ofPhaethon 286 The Head of Medusa (together with Frans 357 Notes Essays Jacob Jordaens Snijders) 236 The Daughters of Cecrops find Erichthonius 288 The Feast ofAchelous (together with Jan 364 Notes Catalogue 238 Meleager andAtalanta Brueghel I) 290 Alexander crowning Roxane 373 Bibliography Kerstiaen de Keuninck 292 The Bath of Artemis 240 Landscape with the Rape of Ganymede 294 The Rape of Ganymede 391 Index of Names of Gods and Heroes Gerard van Kuijl Roelant Saverij 242 Narcissus 296 Orpheus and the Maenads Gerard Lairesse Godfried Schalcken 244 Helios and Eos 298 Aphrodite and Eros Pieter Lastman Bartholomeus Spranger 246 Hippocrates visits Democritus 300 The blindfolding of Eros by 248 Ariadne and Dionysus on Naxos Aphrodite and Hermes 302 Artemis after the Hunt Nicolaes Maes 250 Portrait of four Children as mythological Jan Steen Figures 304 Erysichton selling his Daughter Mestra 306 The Satyr and the Peasant Aert Jansz. van Marienhof 308 The Sacrifice oflphigenia 252 Alexander the Great visits the Grave of Achilles Matthias Stom 310 The Satyr and the Peasant Jan van Mieris 254 Odysseus and Circe Lambert Sustris 312 Aphrodite, Ares and Eros Willem van Mieris 256 Artemis Jan Tengnagel 258 Artemis bathing 314 Atalanta and Hippomenes 316 Circe changing the Companions of Nicolaes Moeyaert Odysseus into Swine 260 The Triumph of Dionysus Theodoor van Thulden Johannes Moreelse 318 Perseus and Andromeda 262 Democritus Heraclitus Lodewijk Toeput (Lodovico Pozzoserrato) 320 Landscape with the Fall ofPhaethon Paulus Moreelse 264 The Judgement of Paris Moyses van Uyttenbroeck 322 The Judgement of Midas Eglon van der Neer HA Landscape with Hermaphroditus and 266 Gyges and Candaules Salmacis Cornelis van Poelenburch Maarten de Vos 268 Artemis and Callisto 326 The Contest between the Muses and the 270 Hermes and Herse Pierides 272 Landscape with the Judgement of Paris (together with Jan Both) Joachim Wtewael 328 Aphrodite, Ares and Eros Willem de Poorter 274 Solon and Croesus 330 Prints Jacob Pynas 276 Landscape with Hermes and Battus Rembrandt van Rijn 278 Athena 280 Philemon and Baucis Jacques Ignatius de Roore 282 The Judgement of Paris.
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