The History of Lovers in Art
The Art History Archive - Erotica
This Website is Best Viewed Using Firefox
Egyptian - The High Official Ka-tep and his Wife Hetep-heres - c.2650 BC
Egyptian - Mycerinus and his Queen - c.2600 BC
Egyptian - Rahotep & Nofret - c.2580 BC
Egyptian - The Brother of Ramose and his Wife - c.1370 BC
Greek - Lover's Meeting - c. 550 BC
Greek - Eros with Harpist Pelike - c.320 BC
Roman Husband and his Wife - c.50 BC
Pompeii - Nymph and Satyr - c.70 AD
Byzantine - Justinian and His Wife - c.547 AD
India - The Lovers - c.650 AD
India - Mithuna - c.1250 AD
Aztec - The Erring Husband - 1450-1550
Africa - The Oni of Ife and his Queen - c.1200 AD
French - Knight and Lady Riding in a Wood - c.1325
Violinist Kissing Dancer - c.1325
French - The First Kiss of Lancelot and Guinevere / Prose Lancelot - c.1310
Jaquotin de Lespluc - The Reunion of Penelope and Ulysses / History of Thebes and the Destruction of Troy - 1469
Bernat Martorel - St. George and the Dragon - c.1438
Jan van Eyck - Adam & Eve - 1432
Jan van Eyck - The Marriage of Jan Arnolfini and Jeanne de Chenany - 1434
After Fra Angelico - The Rape of Helen by Paris - c.1450
Masaccio - Expulsion from Paradise - c.1427
Sandro Botticelli - Mars and Venus - 1483-85
Raphael - The Marriage of the Virgin - 1504
Giorgione - Sleeping Venus - 1507
Correggio - Danae - c.1532
Benvenuto Cellini - Salt Cellar of St. Francis I - 1539-43
Titian - The Rape of Europa - 1559-62
Titian - Venus and Adonis - 1553-54
Andrea Schiavone - Landscape with Jupiter and Io - c.1550
Titian - Jupiter and Io - c.1560-65
Palma Vecchio - Jacob and Rachel - c.1525
Paolo Veronese - Rebecca at the Well - Date???
Jacopo Tintoretto - Lucretia and Tarquinius - Date???
Bronzino - Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time - c.1545
Francesco Parmigianino - Portrait of the Courtesan Anthea - Date???
Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam and Eve - 1526
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Peasant Wedding - c.1568
Pieter Pourbus - An Allegorical Love-Feast - c.1543
School of Fontainebleau - Mars and Venus - c.1550
Francois Clouet - Diane de Poitiers - c.1571
Bartholomous Spranger - Vulcan and Maia - c.1590
Calcutta - Lovers Riding on a Camel - 1605
Rubens - Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus - c.1616-17
India - The Adi-Buddha Vajradhara in Union with his Sakti - c.1650
India - Krishna Approaching Radha - c.1650
Gianlorenzo Bernini - Apollo and Daphne - 1622-25
Guido Reni - Atalanta and Hippomanos - c.1625
Peter Paul Rubens - The Garden of Love - c.1638
Anthony Van Dyck - Cupid and Psyche - c.1638-40
Frans Hals - Portrait of the Artist and his Wife - c.1624-27
Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-Portrait with Saskia - c.1634
Afzal al-Husayni - A Pair of Lovers - 1646
Jan Vermeer - The Love Letter - c.1660-67
Gerard ter Borch - The Gallant Officer - c.1662-63
Jan Steen - The Proposal - Date???
Arie de Vois - Rustic Courtship - 1656
After Simon Vouet - Neptune and Ceres - Date???
Peter Lely - Eleanor Gwyn - c.1675
Antoine Watteau - La Gamme d'Amour - c.1717
Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater - Conversation Galante c. 1728
Francois Boucher - Hercules and Omphale - c.1730
Jean Marc Nattier - Mademoiselle de Clermont at the Bath - 1733
William Hogarth - Marriage a la Mode / The Marriage Contract - 1743
Thomas Gainsborough - Mr and Mrs Andrews - c.1749
Francois Boucher - Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan - 1754
Maurice Quentin De La Tour - Madame de Pompadour - 1755
Radha and Krishna on a Terrace at Night - c.1760
Jean Baptiste Greuze - The Inconsolable Widow - c.1763
Suzuki Haranobu - Lovers in the Snow under an Umbrella - 1766-68
Jean Honore Fragonard - The Swing - c.1768-69
Jean Honore Fragonard - The Surprise - 1771-72
Jacques-Louis David - The Oath of the Horatii - 1784-85
Antonio Canova - Cupid & Psyche - 1787-93
Pierre Paul Prud'hon - Venus and Adonis - c.1810
Giambattista Tiepolo - The Banquet of Cleopatra - 1743-44
Sir Joshua Reynolds - Nelly O'Brien - 1760-62
Thomas Gainsborough - Mrs Robinson as Perdita - 1781
George Romney - Emma, Lady Hamilton - c.1785
India - Radha and Krishna in the Grove - c.1785
|