Giant Collection (page 6)

Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The giants attempt to scale Heaven by piling mountains upon one another, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
The giants attempt to scale Heaven by piling mountains upon one another, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Detail from the Great Frieze of the Pergamon Altar, 180-159 BC. Part of the Athena Group; Athena, a giant and Gala. The 113 metre long Ancient Greek frieze depicts the gigantomachy

Hercules, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Hercules, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Cyclops, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Cyclops, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Right hand from a colossal statue of Emperor Constantine, 330 AD. From the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome

Colossal statue, Egypt, 1852. Artist: Maxime du Camp
Colossal statue, Egypt, 1852. Maxime du Camp was a French writer and photographer. Found in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Abu Simbel, Egypt, 19th century. Artist: Nestor l Hote
Abou Simbel, Egypt, 19th century. View of the twin temples carved out of the rock overlooking the Nile by Rameses II in the 13th century BC

Interior of the Temple of Abou Simbel, Egypt, 1842-1845. Artist: E Weidenbach
Interior of the Temple of Abou Simbel, Egypt, 1842-1845. View inside the temple of Abu Simbel built by Rameses II showing some of the colossal statues

Temple of Abu Simbel, 1842-1845. Artist: E Weidenbach
Temple of Abu Simbel, 1842-1845. Colossal statues of Rameses II at the entrance to the temple. From in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris

The Interior of the Temple at Ybsombul in Nubia, 1820. Artist: Agostino Aglio
The Interior of the Temple at Ybsombul in Nubia, 1820. Statues inside the Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel. The Italian explorer Giovanni Belzoni cleared the temple of sand in 1817

Roland pierces the giant Ferragut in the navel, stained glass, Chartres Cathedral, 1194-1260
Roland pierces the giant Ferragut in the navel, stained glass, Chartres Cathedral, France, 1194-1260. Detail from the Charlemagne Window

Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Artist: John Kay
Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Patrick O Brien (c1765-1804), the Irish giant, being measured for a suit by an Edinburgh tailor

Giant burning glass of the Academie des Sciences, Paris, 18th century, (1874). Artist: Amedee Guillemin
Giant burning glass of the Academie des Sciences, Paris, 18th century, (1874). Constructed under the direction of Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) and others, it was used for chemical experiments

Greek relief detail, Battle of Gods and Giants, Apollo and Artemis fight, 525BC. Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi

Cover of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, late 19th century. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was first published in 1818

Cerne Abbas Giant, 18th century

David and Jonathan, c. 1508. Artist: Cima da Conegliano, Giovanni Battista (ca. 1459-1517)
David and Jonathan, c.1508. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Giants in Messina, Sicily. An Amazan and a Moor made for a procession every August 13th-15th

Giant storage jar at the Minoan royal palace at Mallia
Giant storage jar (Pithos) at the Minoan royal palace at Mallia

Apollo killing the Cyclops (Fresco from Villa Aldobrandini), 1617-1618. Artist: Domenichino (1581-1641)
Apollo killing the Cyclops (Fresco from Villa Aldobrandini), 1617-1618. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Combat between Roland and Ferragus, c1820. Artist: Antonio Verico
Combat between Roland and Ferragus, c1820. Roland (by tradition d778) the semi-legendary French knight and hero of the 11th century Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland)

David slaying Goliath, c1860. Having killed the Philistine giant with a stone from his sling, David makes sure that Goliath is really dead

David slaying the Philistine giant Goliath, c1870. According to the Bible, Goliath was 6 cubits (approximately 3 metres) tall

St Christopher and a Guardian Angel, 19th century. Legend has it that St Christopher was a 3rd century Canaanite giant whose task was to carry travellers across the water

Hecate and giants, Roman relief. Hecate was the Greek goddess of the lower world, magic, ghosts and witchcraft. Honey, dogs and black lambs were offered to her at crossroads

King Arthur fighting a giant, 1514. Arthur, under the protection of the Virgin Mary, engages a giant in single combat, watched by the men of two armies. From Chroniques de Bretagne. (Paris, 1514)

Anthropomorphic Landscape, c1600-1635. Artist: Joos de Momper, the younger
Anthropomorphic Landscape, c1600-1635

The Temple of Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt, 1878. Artist: Felix Bonfils
The Temple of Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt, 1878. The monumental statues of Rameses II outside the entrance to the Temple of Abu Simbel. From Album of Photographs, Egypt, by Felix Bonfils, 1878

Simpleton, 1819-1823. Artist: Francisco Goya
Simpleton, 1819-1823. Plate 4 of Proverbs, published in 1864. The series also known as disparates (absurdities) or suenos (dreams) is seen as symbolic of the absurdity of the human condition

Gulliver in Lilliput. Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, regains consciousness and finds himself a prisoner of the Lilliputians

Iguana, the great herbivorous sea lizard of the Galapagos Islands. Darwins study of the fauna of the islands contributed to his theory of evolution. Wood engraving, c1890

Giant Land Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands, 1884. Darwins study of the fauna of the Islands contributed to his theory of evolution. Wood engraving

Giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands which were observed by Darwin, 1894. In foreground are two Finches, another group of Galapagos fauna of which Darwin made a particular study

St Brandan hown on his 7-year voyage to find Isle of St Brandon of Land of Saints
St Brandan (Brendan) Irish saint said to be born in 484 in Tralee. Brandon shown on his 7-year voyage to find Isle of St Brandon of Land of Saints. Engraving

Scene from the Gigantomachy on the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, 6th century BC
Scene from the Gigantomachy on the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, showing one of Cybeles lions attacking a giant. In Delphi Museum, 6th century BC

The Giants and the Pigmy, 1881. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Giants and the Pigmy, 1881. The Liberal Prime Minister, carrying the axe, is walking in company with his Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr William Forster

Little Gulliver, 1873. Artist: Joseph Swain
Little Gulliver, 1873. Gulliver exclaims Make your Game, my Little Men! It Amuses you, and it won t Hinder me In the guise of Gulliver, this shows the first president of Frances Third Republic

Infinitely Small from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836

Mercury and Argos, from Game of Mythology (Jeu de la Mythologie), 1644

A giant heaving a boulder at center, other giants to left and right struggling and recoiling against impending boulders, nude figures climbing rocks and struggling in the background

Giants crushed by rocks and the falling columns of the temple, clouds of smoke above, Poseidon in his chariot to left in the background, two spaces at left for doorways

La Pace Tedesca, 1917
La Pace Tedesca, pub. 1917 (colour lithograph)

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