Legend Collection (page 6)

King Arthur and the Knights at the Round Table. Miniature of the incunable of Lancelot du Lac, by A. Verard. 1490. National Library. Paris. France

Helen of Troy by Matania
Helen of Troy and King Priam watch Paris and Menelaus fight for her sake. Illustration to accompany the first story in a series on Famous Women from History written by Kenneth Bell

Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476). Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476). Oil. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History)

PARMIGIANINO, Francesco Mazzola, called Il (1503-1540). Legend of Artemis and Actaeon. 1523. ITALY. Fontanellato. La Rocca. Detail. Greyhound. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Fresco

Ara Casali. View of the back, with the legend of Romulus and Remus. Roman art. Relief on rock. VATICAN CITY. Pius-Clementine Museum (Vatican Museums)

People at the well, Cana, Galilee, Northern Israel
People collecting water at the well in Cana, Galilee, Northern Israel. According to biblical legend, it was in Cana that Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding feast -- his first miracle

Pied Piper and children, Hamelin (Hameln), Germany
Pied Piper and children make their way along a street in the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Germany. Date: circa 1940s

The Legend of Gudrun: Hagen Slays the Griffin

The Legend of Gudrun: Hagen and the Griffins. Panel from Look and Learn no. 581 (3 March 1973)

Florence, Italy - Siena - Romulus and Remus
A statue of the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus at Siena. A fine example of a corinthian capitol. The towns emblem: a she-wolf suckling infants Romulus and Remus can be seen across the city

Siegfried slaying the great dragon Fafner
Act two : armed with the magic sword Notung, Siegfried kills Fafner, who has taken on the form of a dragon. Scene from Wagners Siegfried. Date: 1903

Misfitz - The Pied Piper of Hamelin. early 20th century

Queen Margaret of Anjou with son and robber
Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, fleeing into a forest after the Battle of Hexham (15 May 1464, Wars of the Roses) with her son, Prince Edward, meets a robber and asks for protection

Sir Francis Drake, The Spanish Armada is in Sight (19 July 1588) -- despite which, according to legend, he stayed and finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe. 1588

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). French painter. Oath of the
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). French painter. Neoclassical. Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Oil on Canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France

Wernyhora, 1883-1884, by Jan Matejko (1838-1893)
Jan Matejko (1838-1893). Polish painter. Wernyhora, 1883-1884. National Museum. Krakow. Poland

Master of Saint Veronica. St. Veronica with the Holy Kerchie
Master of Saint Veronica. German painter. Work perido: Between 1395-1420 in Cologne. Gothic style. St. Veronica with the Holy Kerchief. c.1420. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Malinche (c. 1496-1529). Colored engraving
Malinche (c.1496-1529). Nahua woman. Interpreter of the spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes. Mexican engraving, 1885. Colored. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Replica of Capitoline wolf and infants Romulus and Remus. Merida. Spain

Odysseus returns home. Roman Fresco
Odysseus disguised as a beggar returns home. Episode of the Odyssey. Roman Fresco. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy

Pergamon Altar. Telephos Frieze. Detail
Pergamon Altar. 164-156 BC. Telephos Frieze. Detail. Cults at the Sanctuary of Dionysus. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Malinche (c. 1496-1529). Engraving
Malinche (c.1496-1529). Nahua woman. Interpreter of the spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes. Mexican engraving, 1885. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Germanic bards. Colored engraving
Bard. Among the ancient Celts, a poet who composed panegyrics and songs of war, but then went on to describe the heroic or lyric poet of any age or country. Germanic bards. Colored engraving

Parthenon. Metope XXIX. Centaur holding a fighter defeated
Greek Art. Metope on the south side of the Parthenon. 5th century B.C. A Centaur holding a fighter defeated. Metope XXIX. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London. England. UK

Pelican Blood Donor
The female pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) is supposed in legend to peck her own chest and give her blood to her young when no other food is available. Date: circa 1650

Friedrich I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor from 1155. He drowned in a river near Antioch while on a Crusade, but as depicted here there is a legend that he is sleeping with his knights in a cave

Mermaid of Zennor wood carving, Zennor Church, Cornwall
A wood carving of a mermaid on the end of a pew in Zennor Church, near St Ives, Cornwall. She is known as the Mermaid of Zennor and is depicted with long flowing hair

SPAD VII French fighter plane captured by Germans
SPAD VII French fighter plane belonging to Escadrille SPA 31 which was forced down behind enemy lines and carries the legend: Acquired by Jasta 38, 6 April 1917 (in German). Date: circa 1917

Tahiti scene by Leon Carre
Illustration by Leon Carre to accompany a story in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1930 entitled, Tahiti Tihare - a Polynesian Legend

Big Foot Footprint
Cast of Big Foot footprint 17 x 7 1/2. Found by Jerry Crew on 3 October 1958 in Watchpet Yurok Territory of California Maongo Indian Territory. Malti Museum, California Date: 1958

St. George and the Dragon by Briton Riviere
St. George lying prone and perhaps thanking some higher deity for helping him slay the dragon, the remains of which are coiled beside him. Date: 1914

Lazaretto Point, on the Holy Loch, near Dunoon, Argyllshire, Scotland. Legend has it that ships from the East would land lepers here for special treatment. Date: 1950s

Jamestown, Virginia, USA - Pocahontas and John Smith
Jamestown, Virginia, USA - Pocahontas (1595-1617) and Captain John Smith (1580-1631), the Old Fort and the ruins of the Old Church. Postcard produced for the Jmestown Exposition of 1907 Date: 1907

Big Stone - Cloughmore, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
The Big Stone - Cloughmore, Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland. This 30-ton granite boulder perches on the slopes of Slieve Meen, 1000 ft above the village of Rostrevor

Chimera
An illustration of a mythical creature, part mammal, part reptile, the Chimera. On display for the Myth and Monsters Exhbition which ran from April to September, 1998 at the Natural History Museum

Auto-da-fe of the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by Vergeil (19th c.). Engraving

The Legend of the Royal Axe
The body of Hiram was buried under the alter of the Temple and Solomon, abandonning the cult of Adonis, sacrificed to Moloch, the god Tyrian. 1890s

Kim Il Sung statue in Pyongyang, North Korea
A giant statue of Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), communist leader of North Korea. The statue is the focal point of the Mansudae Grand Monument, and is located at Mansu Hill, Pyongyang

Kunigunde Legend at Chojnik Castle (Kynast)
A hold-to-light card - showing an artists impression of Kynast Castle (Chojnik), a castle located above the village of Sobieszow, today part of Jelenia Gora in southwestern Poland

Church and mountains, Heiligenblut, Austria
View of St Vinzenz Church and the Grossglockner Mountain in Heiligenblut, Austria. The church was built in the 15th century

Trees in Superstition and Legend by Pauline Baynes
Illustration by Pauline Baynes depicting the various trees of legends and superstition

Circe and Swine
Circe the sorceress turns Odysseus men into swine

Achilles & Hector
Apollo intervenes between Hector and Achilles and warns Hector that Achilles might slay him. (Which eventually happens)

Numa Pompilius
NUMA POMPILIUS the second king of Rome, according to legend

Exorcism in Russia
A Cossack chief threatens the Devil with a holy icon - doubtless this relates some popular legend

Edric & St Peter
LEGEND OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY Edric, a fisherman, has a vision of the abbey being consecrated by Saint Peter, with the help of a lot of angels

Sun Hou Tzu
The mischievous monkey fairy/ god, Sun Hou-Tzu, is born from a rock. The legend of the Journey to the West (Hsi Yu Chi) tells of his part in a quest for a Buddhist text

Lancelot & Hellawes
Sir Lancelot and the witch Hellawes

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