Images

Aurora Taking Leave of Tithonus, oil on canvas by Francesco Solimena, 1704. J. Paul Getty Museum, California.

The Gates of Dawn, oil on canvas, by Herbert James Draper. 1900. Draper's Hall, London.

Cephalus and Aurora, oil on canvas by Nicolas Poussin, 1627. National Gallery, London.

Cephalus and Aurora by John Flaxman, 1789-90. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Cheshire.

Eos in her four-horse chariot, detail of terracotta red-figure lekanis vase attributed to the Stuttgart group, from Canosa, late 300s BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Eos lifting up the body of her son Memnon in the so-called "Memnon Pieta" on the interior of an Attic red-figure cup, signed by Douris (painter) and Kalliades (potter), from Capua, Italy, c. 490-480 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

The Death of Chramm, painting by Évariste Vital Luminais, 1879. The painting depicts the execution of Chramn (aka Chramm) and his family, by his own father King Chlothar I (r. 511-561). After rebelling against his father Chramn, was sentenced...

Radegund, niece of the King of Thuringia, is brought before King Chlothar I (r. 511-561), ruler of the Frankish kingdom of Soissons. Chlothar would take Radegund back to Soissons as his spoil of war, and would later make her one of his wives...

Theodebald and Gunther, young sons of the Frankish King Chlodomer (r. 511-524), are murdered by their uncle, King Chlothar I (r.511-561). In this depiction, King Chlothar is shown standing over his murdered nephew with a knife, while a tearful...

A 19th-century depiction of Chlothar I, King of the Franks (r. 511-561), a son of Clovis I (r. 481-511), oil on canvas by Jean Louis Bezard, commissioned by Louis-Philippe, King of the French in 1838 as part of a series on the portraits of...