Founding myth posters & prints

She-Wolf Anonymous

She-Wolf Anonymous

She-Wolf Bronze Sculpture Anonymous

The Creation, from Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1825-26 William Blake

The Creation of Durga: Page from a Dispersed Markandeya Purana…, ca. 1810-20 Unknown

The Fifth Day, from the series The Creation of the World, ca. 1597 Jan Muller

Reynard and Henning Anonymous

Selim and Zuleika or The Bride of Abydos Eugene Delacroix

Title: Creation of the World, ca. 1592 Jan Muller

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1445 Giovanni di Paolo

The Creation Anonymous

Adam and Eve, 1514 Hans Baldung

The Creation Russian icon

The Second Day, from the series The Creation of the World, ca. 1594 Jan Muller

Deucalion and Pyrrha Repeople the World by Throwing Stones Behind Them, c.1636 Peter Paul Rubens

Helgi Hundingsbane returns to Valhalla James Doyle Penrose

Finding of Romulus and Remus, c. 1720-1740 Andrea Lucatelli

The Sixth Day, from the series The Creation of the World, ca. 1598 Jan Muller

Adam and Eve, 1511 Hans Baldung

The Fourth Day, from the series The Creation of the World, ca. 1596 Jan Muller

Gold of the Rhine (Das Rheingold) Anonymous

Prometheus carrying fire, 1637 Jan Cossiers

Adam and Eve, 1519 Hans Baldung

Allegory of Good Government, detail of Romulus and Remus, 1338-40 Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Cadmus Founding Thebes, ca. 1543-44 Master of the Story of Cadmus

The Babylonian Deluge Ernest Wellcousins

Apollo, Pallas and the Muses, 16th century Bartholomaeus Spranger

Shiva Bearing Aloft the Body of His Sati, 1800s Unknown

The Tiger Carries off Miao Shan Anonymous

Tatkanna seized a fire-stick and made off Raymond Wenban

Scenes from the Creation First Master of the Bible historiale of Jean de Berry

Mighty was he to look upon Evelyn Paul

The Finding of Oedipus French School

Animals, Myth of Orpheus, detail Italian School

Idun and the Apples James Doyle Penrose

The Goddess Calypso rescues Ulysses Cornelis van Poelenburgh or Poelenburch