With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on the imagination of poets and artists, and remained a fundamental influence on the diffusi
Botticelli's Birth of Venus (c. 1485–1486, oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence); a revived Venus Pudica for a new view of pagan Antiquity, often said to epitomize for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance.
Francisco Goya, The Rape of Europa, 1772
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Classical mythology, also known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology, along with philo
Le Rapt d'Europe ("The Abduction of Europa," 1750) by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (Dallas Museum of Art)