Underworld Collection (page 2)

Proserpina, from Game of Mythology (Jeu de la Mythologie), 1644

Christ in Limbo, from the Small Woodcut Passion. n. d. Creator: Albrecht Durer
Christ in Limbo, from the Small Woodcut Passion.n.d

Christ in Limbo, from The Large Passion, edition 1511. n. d. Creator: Albrecht Durer
Christ in Limbo, from The Large Passion, edition 1511.n.d

Christ in Limbo, from The Small Passion, ca. 1509. Creator: Albrecht Durer
Christ in Limbo, from The Small Passion, ca. 1509

Christ in Limbo, from The Passion, 1512. Creator: Albrecht Durer
Christ in Limbo, from The Passion, 1512

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld. Creator: Brueghel, Jan, the Elder (1568-1625)
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld. Found in the Collection of Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen

A temple ruin with Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld, Second Half of the 17th cen.. Private Collection

A Questioning of a Prisoner, c. 1630. Creator: Codde, Pieter (1599-1678)
A Questioning of a Prisoner, c.1630. Found in the Collection of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, ca 1604. Creator: Brueghel, Jan, the Elder (1568-1625)
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, ca 1604. Found in the Collection of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

He answer thus return d: The arch-heretics are here, c1890. Creator
He answer thus return d: " The arch-heretics are here", c1890. Dante and the Roman poet Virgil. Illustration from " The Vision of Hell" (Inferno)

The guide, who mark d how I did gaze attentive, thus began, c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré
The guide, who mark d how I did gaze attentive, thus began: " Within these ardours are the spirits, each swath d in confining fire", c1890

Then my guide, his palms expanding on the ground, c1890. Creator: Gustave DorA©
Then my guide, his palms expanding on the ground, thence filled with earth, rais d them, and cast it in his ravenous maw, c1890

E en in like manner Adams evil brood, c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré
E en in like manner Adams evil brood, cast themselves one by one down from the shore, c1890. The dead crossing the river Styx to Hell

All hope abandon, ye who enter here, c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré
All hope abandon, ye who enter here, c1890. Dante and the Roman poet Virgil enter Hell. Illustration from " The Vision of Hell" (Inferno)

Flames raining down, 1951. Creator: Shirley Markham
Flames raining down, 1951. Design for illustration to Dantes " Divine Comedy". Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design

Dante and Virgil with giant, 1951. Creator: Shirley Markham
Dante and Virgil with giant, 1951. Design for illustration to Dantes " Divine Comedy". Shirley Markham (1931-1999)

Ishtar in Hades, 1915. Artist: Ernest Wellcousins
Ishtar in Hades, 1915. Illustration from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie, 1915

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, 1598. Artist: Brueghel, Jan, the Elder (1568-1625)
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, 1598. Private Collection

Ambushing a Group of Bandits at the Cueva del Gato. Artist: Barron y Carrillo, Manuel (1814-1884)
Ambushing a Group of Bandits at the Cueva del Gato. Found in the collection of Museo Carmen Thyssen, Malaga

Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld. Artist: Rosa, Salvatore (1615-1673)
Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld. Found in the collection of Kimbell Art Museum

The seedy men, 1882. Artist: Savitsky, Konstantin Apollonovich (1844-1905)
The seedy men, 1882. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The Robber. Private Collection

An Arrant Knave (Arrested person), 1873. Artist: Perov, Vasili Grigoryevich (1834-1882)
An Arrant Knave (Arrested person), 1873. Found in the collection of the State History Museum, Moscow

Aeneas in the Underworld. Artist: Brueghel, Jan, the Elder (1568-1625)
Aeneas in the Underworld. Found in the collection of Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest

Statuette of a Judge of hell, Chinese, middle Ming dynasty, c15th-16th century (1925). Glazed hardware. Found in the collection of the British Museum

Dante (1265-1321), Florence and the Seven Circles of Hell, 1882. Originally from a fresco at the Servi Gate, Santa Croce. From Florence, by Charles Yriarte

The Descent of Christ into Limbo, 1510, (1936). Artist: Albrecht Durer
The Descent of Christ into Limbo, 1510, (1936). Scene from the Great Passion series. Found in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

Eurydice in Hell, early 17th century. Artist: Hermann Weyer
Eurydice in Hell, early 17th century. According to Greek Mythology, Eurydice was an oak nymph and the wife of Orpheus. She died after stepping on a venomous snake while fleeing a satyr

Charons Boat, or the Ghosts of all the Talents taking their last voyage, 1807. Artist: James Gillray
Charons Boat, or the Ghosts of all the Talents taking their last voyage, 1807. Gillray, James (1757-1815). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Ixion in Tartarus on the wheel, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Ixion in Tartarus on the wheel, 1655. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was the deepest part of the Underworld and reserved for evildoers

Scene of Hell, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Scene of Hell, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Sisyphus pushing his stone up a mountain, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Sisyphus Pushing His Stone up a Mountain, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Orpheus, leading Eurydice out of Hell, looks back upon her and loses her forever, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Orpheus, leading Eurydice out of Hell, looks back upon her and loses her forever, 1733. A plate from Le temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Ixion in Tartarus on the wheel, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Ixion in Tartarus on the wheel, 1733. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was the deepest part of the Underworld and reserved for evildoers. A plate from Le temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733

Thoth, Ibis-headed god leads the deceased to the Underworld, Mummy-case of Pensenhor, c900BC. Coffin of Pensenhor, 22nd Dynasty, Thebes, Egypt. At British Museum

Pot showing Charon and Hermes in the underworld
This pot shows Charon and Hermes in the underworld: Charon is on the left, rowing his boat across the river Styx, and Hermes arm can be seen on the right, acting as a psychopomp

Egyptian depiction of a funeral and entrance into the underworld, Papyrus of Ani
Egyptian depiction of a funeral and entrance into the underworld, from the Papyrus of Ani, a Book of the Dead. From the British Museums collection

Egyptian Book of the Dead, deceased kneeling before the gods of the underworld
Image from the Book of the Dead of the deceased, Ani, kneeling before the gods of the underworld

Egyptian Shabti figure, designed to take on work in the underworld for the person it was buried with, from the Egyptian Museum, Berlin

Detail of the inside of an Egyptian mummy-case, showing gods of the underworld
Detail of the inside of a mummy-case, showing snake and vulture-headed gods of the underworld. The interiror of the coffin of Ahmose, chief doorkeeper of the temple of Mut at Thebes

Bronze head of Pazuzu, probably from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Neo-Assyrian, about 800-550 BC
Bronze head of Pazuzu, probably from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq, Neo-Assyrian, about 800-550 BC. Pazuzu was an Assyrian and Babylonian demonic god of the first millennium BC

Charon the ferryman rowing to collect Dante and Virgil, to carry them across the Styx, 1861. Artist: Gustave Dore
Charon the ferryman rowing to collect Dante and his guide, Virgil, to carry them across the Styx, 1861. Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a great admirer of Virgil

Hades, 18th century. Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology, showing Charon the ferryman, Cerberus, the three-headed dog guarding the entrance, Pluto and Persephone (centre left) and the River Styx

Greek gods Pluto and Persephone sit with Cerberus, the three-headed dog, (15th century)
Pluto and Persephone enthroned: the God and goddess of the underworld, they sit with the three-headed dog, Cerberus, at their feet

Hell, 12th century. Engraving after a miniature in a 12th century manuscript, Hortus deliciarum, produced in a monastery at Hohembourg

Hades carries off Persephone, detail of Red-figure Volute Krater, c380 BC Artist: Iliupersis Painter
Hades carries off Persephone, detail of Red-figure Volute Krater, c380 BC. By the Iliupersis Painter Ornate Apulian style, held at British Museum

Statue of Persephone, 2nd century. Roman, after a Greek original of the 4th century BC. In Greek Mythology Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter

Head of Persephone, 2nd century. Roman, after a Greek original of the 4th century BC. In Greek Mythology Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping