Snakes in Art — Page 8

452 artworks

Horizontal Panel Design with Four Male Figures Fighting a Lion

Polifilo Giancarli|Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century, 17th century (first half)

Touch, from the Five Senses

Cornelis Drebbel|Peter Overadt|Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle with the Suicide of Cleopatra

Theodor de Bry, 1592–93

Frieze with Half-Length Figure Holding Cornucopias

Theodor de Bry, ca. 1590

Tityus Punished in Hell

Cornelis Cort|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 1566

Adam and Eve (copy)

Jan (Johannes) Wierix|Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Venus ordering Psyche to take water from a fountain guarded by dragons, from 'Fable of Cupd and Psyche'

Master of the Die, 1530–60

Plate 14: Ceres in a niche, facing right, standing over a two-headed snake and holding a half-moon sickle in her right hand and a torch in her left hand, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino, 1526

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

The Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican his left hand resting on the tree trunk around which coils a python

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510–27

Two Designs for the Hilt of a Sword (recto); Two Designs for Helmets (verso)

Anonymous, Italian, mid-16th century, 16th century

Cupid riding a goat accompanied by two satyrs, landscape in the background

Giovanni Pietro da Birago|Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, ca. 1500–1505

La Majeste Royale

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Prudence

Andrea della Robbia, ca. 1475

Wall painting on black ground: Egyptianizing scene and pair of swans, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Vase fragment

Bell with heads of a ram, a jackal, and a bovine wearing a yoke ending in uraei

Miniature cippus of Horus (magical stela)

Royal head with an atypical snake and a headdress

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Hermonax, ca. 460 BCE

Limestone footstool

Terracotta lekythos

Diosphos Painter, ca. 500 BCE

Menat of Taharqo: the King Being Nursed by the Lion-Headed Goddess Bastet

Amulet with a Lamashtu demon

Amduat Papyrus Inscribed for Tiye

Mummy Board of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Cylinder seal and modern impression: king before nude winged goddess above snake; weather god on bull

Standing Nagini (Study Collection)

Snake Dance, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1889

A sorceress pointing her wand at a crocodile while royal figures watch, illustration for 'El Clarinete Encantado'

José Guadalupe Posada|José Sanchez, ca. 1880–1910

Cream pitcher (part of a set)

Pitcher

Millington, Astbury and Poulson, ca. 1861

Grotto with owl, snake, and lizard

Charles-Jean Avisseau, ca. 1850–1855

Frolicking Figures and Animals

Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎, 19th century

The Great Boa Tippet–"Still ye have predilection for the serpent"

Thomas McLean|William Heath ('Paul Pry'), November 29, 1829

Sauceboat

Anthony Rasch, ca. 1815

Sugar bowl (part of a set)

Paul Storr|Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, 1813/14

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

Landscape containing "Seven Secretly Hidden Silhouettes"

Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria|Louis XVI, King of France|Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|Marie Antoinette, Queen of France|Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Prince-elector and Archbishop of Mainz|Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony Archbishop-Elector of Trier|Friedrich Ludwig Neubauer|Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia, ca. 1793