After 1497 Mantegna was commissioned by Isabella d ' Este to translate the mythological themes written by the court poet Paride Ceresara into paintings for her private apartment ( studiolo ) in the Palazzo Ducale.

In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating the neighboring Florentine school.

He also executed private commissions for portable canvases of mythological subjects sited in landscapes.

However, within intellectual and aristocratic circles, the aims of art were believed to supersede questions of morality, and there were many, generally mythological, nudes in private collections.

Leading collectors, including the King, tended to keep nudes, many mythological, in relatively private rooms ; in Phillip's case " the room where His Majesty retires after eating ", which contained the Titian poesies he had inherited from Phillip II, and the Rubens he had commissioned himself.

He received many private commissions for mythological and religious works.

Another source of apocalyptic thought was primitive mythological and cosmological traditions, in which the eye of the seer could see the secrets of the future.

Paths lead through woods where the abundant water from the Cherwell is fully utilised: small rills lead to larger ponds and formal pools, classical statuary of Roman gods and mythological creatures are skilfully positioned to catch the eye as one progresses from a cascade to the cold bath and on to the next temple or arcade, each set in its own valley or glade, a succession of picturesque tableaux.

and ( 3 ) in so doing, frees itself to give appropriate emphasis to the event Jesus Christ by means of statements that, from Bultmann's point of view, are mythological.

Campbell proposed that the heroic mythological stories from culture to culture followed a similar underlying pattern, starting with the " call to adventure ", followed by a hazardous journey, and eventual triumph.

In Gylfaginning, Snorri presents the mythological version taken no doubt from his sources.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

Bernard McGinn suggests that the image of the two Beasts in Revelation stems from a " mythological background " involving the figures of Leviathan and Behemoth.

Significant for the distancing of the concept of elves from its mythological origins was the influence from literature.

Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.

For his paintings, Gammell used symbols drawn from C. G. Jung, primitive and medieval cultures, and biblical and mythological sources, to give visual form to Thompson's poem.

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings ( such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors ) originate, are enthroned or inhabit.

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World ( see astrology and astronomy ).

In this neopagan concept, the god is also referred to as Bran, a Welsh mythological figure, Wayland, the smith in Germanic mythology, and Herne, a horned figure from English folklore.

As a result, scholars have theorized a pan-Germanic mythological origin for Hengist and Horsa, stemming originally from divine twins found in Proto-Indo-European religion.

Rudolf Simek notes that these horse heads gables can " still be seen today " ( from a 2007 edition of a work first published in 1984 ) and says that the horse head gables confirm that Hengist and Horsa were originally considered mythological, horse-shaped beings.

The first of these tells the mythological prehistory of the Norwegian royal dynasty, tracing Odin, described here as a mortal man, and his followers from the East, from Asaland and Asgard, its chief city, to their settlement in Scandinavia ( more precisely to east-central Sweden, according to Snorri ).

Additionally, there are a small number of recorded folk tales that, while not strictly mythological, feature personages from one or more of these nine cycles.

Many of the later sources may also have formed part of a propaganda effort designed to create a history for the people of Ireland that could bear comparison with the mythological descent of their British invaders from the founders of Rome that was promulgated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.

The kings that are included range from the almost entirely mythological Labraid Loingsech, who allegedly became High King of Ireland around 431 BC, to the entirely historical Brian Boru.

The Greeks ' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War.

According to some Hindu mythological accounts, the god Krishna obtained the Syamantaka from Jambavanta, whose daughter Jambavati later married Krishna.

The image is further connected to the Biblical, post-Edenic stories in that a mythological story attributes the violent children of Ham becoming the Tartars, and that Tartarus, derived from the location, became a synonym for hell.

* Larissa, mythological nymph from Thessaly

Two spiritual adversaries endeavour to tempt and corrupt humanity: these are often described through their mythological embodiments, Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman, which have both positive and negative aspects.

" In her view, Huangdi was originally an unnamed " lord of the underworld " ( or the " Yellow Springs "), the mythological counterpart of the Shang sky deity Shangdi.

This love passion was described through an elaborate metaphoric and mythological schema involving " love's arrows " or " love darts ", the source of which was often the personified figure of Eros ( or his Latin counterpart, Cupid ), or another deity ( such as Rumor ).

Thus the transformation of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life.

The inhabitants of such places – gods, mythological beings and forces – are for the most part manifested as human characters who can move at will between their domains and the real world.

Imperial tombs have spectacular avenues of approach lined with real and mythological animals on a scale matching Egypt, and smaller versions decorate temples and palaces.

The American Harpy Eagle is a real bird named after the mythological animal.

The decorative motifs were generally bordered scenes: people, mythological creatures, real animals, rocks, vegetation, and marine life.

Although mythological characters are not representations of real people, they are a group that would have been recognizable to ancient audiences, and even back then, tended to fall into well-established group types.

During the period when Corot acquired the means to devote himself to art, landscape painting was on the upswing and generally divided into two camps: one ― historical landscape by Neoclassicists in Southern Europe representing idealized views of real and fancied sites peopled with ancient, mythological, and biblical figures ; and two ― realistic landscape, more common in Northern Europe, which was largely faithful to actual topography, architecture, and flora, and which often showed figures of peasants.

However, in a blazon, the terms hippocamp and hippocampus now refer to the real animal called a seahorse, and the terms seahorse and sea-horse refer to the mythological creature.

Although some fantasies were rooted in the real world, many others involved supernatural ( such as ghosts, demons, or witchcraft ) or mythological ( mermaids, genies, Greek goddesses ) elements.

There is disagreement whether Tenoch is a mythological person, or a real Mexica leader who was later mythologized.

The canals were named, by Schiaparelli and others, after real and legendary rivers of various places on Earth or the mythological underworld.

One way in which it's possible to experience the fetish in real life is with extraordinarily tall women who refer to themselves as amazons — after the mythological Greek warriors.

Jayna can transform into any animal, whether real, mythological, indigenous to Earth or to some other planet, like Beast Boy.

This article deals with modern sightings ( the last 200 years ) of such a creature, reported as real, as opposed to mythological accounts, though believers in the phenomenon often use the Native American legends in attempts to support their claims.

In his books on Troy he endeavoured to show that the existence of Troy and the Greek expedition were purely mythological, with no basis in real history.

Virgin Steele play what they call " barbaric romanticism " which is a symphonic, romantic and bombastic music with many elements taken from classical music and fantasy / mythological lyrics based on real life events.

* Sorginak are both mythological beings that travel with Mari and real witches.

One of them makes an argument that America is unique in that it has no real mythological character for granting wishes, such as a genie or leprechaun.

While some ships are historical and contain accurate historical descriptions of real events, others are either original fiction, fiction in the public domain ( the Pequod from Moby-Dick ), mythological creatures, or are homages to fictional ships or characters.

The traverse arches are supported by brackets decorated with carvings of real and mythological beasts, including a tarasque.

His pieces do not seem to possess any real sense of time, they merely exist at a point in the past – almost ghostly reminders of a mythological happening, or person long deceased.

The story deals with the opposition of eternal forces of nature and involves the interactions of mythological characters ( Frost, Spring, Wood-Sprite ), real people ( Kupava, Mizgir '), and those in-between, i. e., half-mythical, half-real ( Snow Maiden, Lel ’, Berendey ).

Hannen Swaffer, a writer for The Graphic, referred humorously to Holbrooke on several occasions as " The Cockney Wagner ", although the only real similarity between the two was a predeliction for mythological music drama:

It is not certain whether Yuhi III Gahindiro was a real or mythological person.