MYTHS . . . by different artists, part 2

the Medusa by Franz von Stuck ... those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone

     

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Perseus beheaded Medusa as she slept.  He then rescued his mother by
turning her captors to stone at the sight of Medusa's head

... a painting by Franz von Stuck       see full size

       

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half-human centaurs from Greek mythology represented 

barbarism and chaos ... Franz Von Stuck       see full size
        

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a John Dickson Batten illustration
        

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a centaur by Heinrich Kley,  1919       see full size
        

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Wikipedia:  "... a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.  Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide,  including the Near East,  Europe,  Asia,  and Africa"    a Howard Pyle illustration
     

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a dragon (from Asia and North Africa cultures) ornamented in mother of pearl
        

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Arthur Rackham fairies of 1912 ... from Celtic,  Slavic, 
German,  English,  and French folklore       see full size
        

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a Theodor Kittelsen illustration of Norwegian folklore
        

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a 1923 Léon Spilliaert painting of the 1600s European story,
'Little Red Riding Hood'       see full size
        

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Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula the vampire in the 1931 film
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a 1970s Gene Colan story panel for "Dracula",  by Marvel Comics
        

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a B. Cory Kilvert illustration for Life magazine ... two characters based on Pan, 
 Greek god of shepherds flocks and the wild
        

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a Karl Alexander Wilke illustration of Icarus who flew too near the sun
        

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an Adolfo Hohenstein 1898 poster for Cinzano vermouth
        

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1400s    "... there was a tree formerly in Scotland, which growing by the margin of a stream produced fruit of the shape of ducks;  that such fruit,  when nearly ripe,  fell,  some into the water and some on land.  Such as fell on land decayed,  but such as fell into the water quickly became animated,  swimming below,  and then flying into the air with feathers and wings."

        

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Arthur Rackham       see full size
        

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a Hans Thoma painting of Mars,  the Roman god of war
        

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the fairy 'Tinkerbell' by Mary Blair       see full size 
        

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'she loves me ... she loves me not'     picking petals from a 1957 flower
        

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Franz Wacik       see full size

        

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a Dugald Stewart Walker illustration       see full size
        

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the 1600s "Flying Dutchman" is a legendary ghost ship that can never
make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever
        

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from the 1960s USA television production 'Lost In Space',
based on a Cyclops of Greek mythology
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an Utagawa Kuniyoshi print of a character from an 1804 Japanese theater play
        

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opium by Alexandre de Riquer

        

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an 1866 illustration of Notre Dame cathedral in middle-ages France ... these 'gargoyles'
acted as both waterspouts and protectors of the building
        

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illustrator Haddon H. Sundblom designed the modern 
version of Santa Claus in the 1940s for the
Coca-Cola company       see full size
        

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The Killing Trees,  a Gustave Dore illustration for Dante's 
1300s poem 'Divine Comedy'       see full size
        

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a Harry Rountree illustration

      

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