Collection Context: stories, and, histories

The ancient site of Eleusis, image by Carol Raddato, used under creative common cc by sa

Eleusis: Myth and Mysteries

A depiction of Osiris

Osiris

The Sarcophagus of Ramesses III

Ramesses III

M.47 1997 A sculpture of Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion

The Lion of Nemea

'Triumph of Orthodoxy' over iconoclasm under the Byzantine Empress Theodora and her son Michael III. Late 14th – early 15th-century icon. - Public domain image

Iconoclasm

Headline: Limoges enamel, two crowned martyrs from a reliquary

The Four Crowned Saints

The presentation in the temple by Rembrandt

The Presentation in the Temple

A Miracle of Saint Zenobius: Domenico Veneziano

Zenobius

The Annunciation

The Annunciation

The Virgin of Humility. Paolo Schiavo (Paolo di Stefano Badaloni) (Italian, 1397-1478). Florentine School

The Flagellants

The Nativity by Sebastiano Mainardi

The Nativity

The Baptism of Christ, by William Blake

The Meeting of Jesus and John

A view of Venice Canal by Canaletto

The Relics of St Mark

Venus attended by Eros

Venus Wounded

A bowl showing the story

Peleus and Thetis

The rape of Lucretia

The Rape of Lucretia

Hermes, Herse and Aglauros

Hermes, Herse and Aglauros

Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee

Mary Magdalene

Jews in the synagogue, by Rembrandt

Judas

Ecce Homo, The man of sorrows by Guido Reni

The Mocking of Christ

The Transfiguration by Aelbert Bouts

Christ Transfigured

The road to Calvary

The Road to Calvary

Terminus depicted

Terminus

A knight on horseback from an engraving by Albrecht Dürer

German Knights

The Adoration of the Magi Flemish, c. 1540

The Magi

Esther before Ahasuerus, Jan Boeckhorst (1605–68)

Esther and Ahasuerus

Crossbow diagram

The Crossbow in Battle

An Olinda Tulip

Tulipomania

The death of Hippolytus by Rubens

The Death of Hippolytus

A Village Festival, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Plaijerwater

PD 32 1968 Hermaphtoditus and Salmacis

Hermaphtoditus and Salmacis

Three scenes from the story of Tobias and the Angel; the journey, Tobias captures the fish, the homecoming.

The Prodigal Son

Death mask of Oliver Cromwell

Cromwell and the Republic

A depiction of leda and the swan

Leda's Children

Newton's notes

Sir Isaac Newton

Before, by William Hogarth

Certain Vicious Men

Self-portrait, with the Colosseum, Rome

The Grand Tour

Self-portrait, with the Colosseum, Rome

The Grand Tour – Itinerary

Caricature of G.F. Handel 'The Charming Brute', by Joseph Goupy

George Friederic Handel

Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: Licence: Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art

Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

'Pew group' with Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

The Chariot of Apollo: Odilon Redon (1840–1916)

Daphne and Apollo

M.36-1997 - satyr playing his double pipe

Apollo and Marsyas

A Musical Party, the Mathias Family, by Gawen Hamilton

Tea

A study for a fiend's head

Alderman John Boydell

The Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy

The Prophet of the Hebrews... P.344-1948

Richard Brothers and the Millennium

A bust of Napoleon

Napoleon in Russia

The Battle of Waterloo

Waterloo

Rossetti's Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee, 1858

The Feast in the House of Simon

The Old Bedford Music Hall

The Music Hall

Graham Sutherland's 'The Descent from the Cross'

The Deposition