The History of Lovers in Art
The Art History Archive - Erotica


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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

Thomas Rowlandson - Love in a Village - 1800

Goya - The Naked Maja - c.1800-05

Samuel Palmer - The Bright Cloud - c.1831-32

Pakistan - Radha and Krishna - c.1810-20

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Paolo and Francesca - 1819

William Blake - Paolo and Francesca in the Whirlwind of Lovers - c.1824-27

William Etty - The Parting of Hero and Leander - c.1827

Ingres - Odalisque with a Slave - 1842

Thomas Couture - A Roman Feast - 1843

Gustave Courbet - The Happy Lovers - 1844

Eugene Delacroix - The Death of Ophelia - 1844

Fanny Palmer - The Lovers' Reconciliation - 1846

John Everett Millais - Ophelia - 1851-52

William Holman Hunt - The Awakened Conscience - 1853

Arthur Hughes - April Love - 1856

Manet - The Picnic - 1863

Manet - Boating at the Argenteuil - c.1874

Bangwa Cameroon - Dancing Royal Couple - c.1875

Sir Edward Burne-Jones - King Cophetus and the Beggar Maid - 1884

Solomon J. Solomon - Samson - 1887

Aubrey Beardsley - The Toilette of Salome II - 1893

Auguste Rodin - The Kiss - 1901-04

Edvard Munch - The Kiss - 1902

Marc Chagall - Lovers on Horseback - 1931

Max Beckmann - Odysseus and Calypso - 1943

Siegfried Charoux - Young Love - 1950

Henry Moore - King and Queen - 1952-53

Bernard Buffet - The Couple - 1958

Derrick Greaves - Lovers - 1958

Arthur Boyd - The Persecuted Lovers - 1958

Allen Jones - Concerning Marriages 5 - 1964

Francesco Clemente - Midnight Sun II - 1982

Charles Moffat - Love Ripple - 1997

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