Modern Art on Greek Mythology (for midterm)

Some of these images have been shown in lectures

The castration of Uranus (Ouranos)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mutiliation_of_Uranus_by_Saturn.jpg
Kronos (Cronus) eating his children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya,_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_(
1819-1823).jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rubens_saturn.jpg
Zeus and the Kouretes (This ancient images slide is missing from the posted ppt)
THE KOURETES guarded baby Zeus
in a cave on a mountain in Crete. In
order to keep him safely hidden from
his cannibalistic father, the Titan
Kronos (Cronus), [the Kouretes]
drowned out his cries with a frenzied
dance of clashing spear and shield
(theoi.com Kouretes). Here
Amaltheia as a nymph (and not a
For the fall of Phaethon:
http://www.maicar.com/GML/000Iconography/Phaethon/slides/4020.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo_Buonarroti_-_The_Fall_of_Phaeton__WGA15504.jpg

For Prometheus:
http://www.maicar.com/GML/000Iconography/Prometheus/slides/3802.html
http://www.maicar.com/GML/000Iconography/Prometheus/slides/3807.html
http://www.greek-gods.info/greek-gods/hermes/hermes-paintings.php
For Pandora and Hope http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/gustav-klimt/hope-i
Zeus and Hera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carracci_-_Jupiter_et_Junon.jpeg
Io and Zeus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mythology/Featured_picture
Aphrodite, Hephaestos, Ares:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/6953794788/

Pygmalion and Galatea: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-thecollections/110000925

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pygmalion_%26_Galatea_(Louis_Gauffier).jpg
Apollo and Daphne:
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/ApolloAndDaphneBernini.html