Snakes in Art — Page 6

I Have Supped Full of Horrors (from McGuire Scrapbook)

John Cranch

Jug

Elkington & Co., 19th century, after 1615–16 original

Dish

Bernard Palissy, 19th century

Great jug

Elkington & Co., 19th century, after 1604–5 original

Rape of Europa

『画本虫撰』「虵」「とかけ」|Rat Snake (Hebi); Lizard or Skink (Tokage), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1788

Ornamental frieze with putti and intertwined snakes, from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1784

Teapot in the form of an elephant

Ralph Wood the Younger, second half 18th century

Six people watching a snake, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743–50

Six people watching a snake, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743–50

Chinese Magician

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau|François Boucher|Chez Huquier, 1738–45

Shield in the Classical Style

Piece

Page from a Dispersed Shiva Mahatmya (Great Tales of Shiva)

Pilgrim Flask

Valance (one of a set of six)

The Death of Cleopatra

Guido Cagnacci, ca. 1645–55

Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

Polifilo Giancarli|Odoardo Fialetti|Tasio Giancarli, 1628 before

Giovanni Grosso standing on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, with his right arm outstretched and a snake coiled around his foot and sword

Francesco Villamena, 1613

Hortulana, from Hortulanae series

Jacques Bellange|Jean I Leblond, 1611

Watchcase cover: Tisiphone Casting Snakes at Athamas and Ino

Jean de Court|Suzanne de Court, first quarter of the 17th century

Figure with Pig and Serpent, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

Francesco Angeloni|Battista Franco|Philippe Thomassin|Enea Vico|Anonymous, Italian, 16th century, published ca. 1599–1622

Jug

Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 46 (verso)

Federico de Vinciolo|Jean Le Clerc|Henri III, King of France and Poland|Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont|Chambolle-Duru, 1588

Eurydice Bitten by a Serpent

Hendrick de Clerck, n.d.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1590

Dan, from The Twelve Sons of Jacob

Jacques de Gheyn II|Karel van Mander I|Jan Pitten

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Apollo Belvedere

Marcantonio Raimondi|Antonio Lafreri, 1552

Design for a Wall Fountain

Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century, 1550–1620

Design for a Wall Fountain

Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century, 1550–1620

Dan, from the series The Twelve Patriarchs

Maarten van Heemskerck|Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, 1550

Antique Ewer with a Handle in the Shape of Two Snakes coming from the Head of Medusa below, from Vases after the Antique

Enea Vico, 1543 or after

The infant Hercules killing the snakes, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

Giulio Bonasone, 1531–76

Adam; Eve

Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini, ca. 1520

Solomon's Idolatry [I Kings, 11:1-8]

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1517

Prudence personified by a woman standing in a niche, holding a shawl in her right hand, a snake coiled around her, left from 'The Virtues'

Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), ca. 1515–25

Dish

Dish

Dish

Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499)

Niccolò Fiorentino (Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli), probably 1490–99

Rattle with a Coiled Serpent

Bell

Carved Bowl

Lead votive plaque

Vase Fragment

Terracotta plaque

Vase fragment

Pair of gold and glass earrings with baby Herakles