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Boreas

Also known as: Boreas; primary name: Boreas; other name: Borias
Details: individual; deity; personification/emblem; Greek; Roman; Male
Biography: Personification of the North Wind and foremost of all the wind-gods; father of the Boreads (q.v.); he abducted Oreithyia (q.v.).

38 related objects

antefix

Museum number: 1892,0121.10 |
Cultures/periods: x14450 Roman |
Production date: 1stC |
Production place: Made in:Italy |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Lanuvium

box

Museum number: 1889,0702.21 |
Production place: Made in:France

column krater

Museum number: 1849,0518.9 |
Cultures/periods: x13677 Attic |
Production date: 460BC |
Production place: Made in:Attica (Greece)

lekythos

Museum number: 1884,0223.2 |
Producer name: BIOG60422 Attributed to:The Sabouroff Painter |
Cultures/periods: x13677 Attic |
Production date: 470BC-440BC |
Production place: Made in:Attica (Greece)

medal

Museum number: G3,IP.941 |
Producer name: Designed by:Ludovico LeoniModelled by:Ludovico Leoni |
Production date: 16thC |
Production place: Made in:Padua

neck-amphora

Museum number: 1978,0502.10 |
Producer name: BIOG59450 Attributed to:The Memnon Group |
Cultures/periods: x13739 Chalcidian |
Production date: 520BC |
Production place: Made in:Italy

print

Title: Theatrum Artis Pictoriae |
Museum number: 1949,1008.244 |
Producer name: Print made by:Anton Joseph PrennerAfter:Francesco Solimena |
Production date: 1728

print

Title: L'Air The Four Elements |
Museum number: 1998,0426.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:DemarestPublished by:François Landry |
Production date: 1705 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; album

Title: Calai e Zeti condotti da Borea et Oritia Le manifique carousel fait sur le fleuve de l'Arne |
Museum number: 1972,U.152.6 |
Producer name: After:Giulio ParigiAfter:Remigio Cantagallina |
Production date: 1664 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; playing-card

Title: Borée et Orithie Jeu des fables |
Museum number: 1849,0421.232 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1644

print

Title: Septentrio The Four Winds |
Museum number: 1862,0712.338 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan Sadeler IAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1580

print; book-illustration

Title: Achillis Bocchii Bonon. symbolicarum quaestionum de Universo genere quas serio ludebat |
Museum number: H,5.112 |
Producer name: BIOG20134 Print made by:Giulio Bonasone |
Production date: 1555 |
Production place: Published in:Bologna (province)

print; book-illustration

Title: Louis XII sur son trône |
Museum number: 1871,1209.2039 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1729-1733

print; playing-card

Title: Jeu des fables |
Museum number: 1871,0513.563-574 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1644

print

Museum number: 1891,0414.874 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:Philip Spruyt |
Production date: 1742-1801

print; ornament print; album

Title: Livre de miroirs tables et guéridons |
Museum number: 1937,0915.446.125 |
Producer name: After:Jean LepautrePublished by:Justus Danckertsz |
Production date: 1660-1695 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

print

Title: Calai e Zeti condotti da Borea et Oritia Le manifique carousel fait sur le fleuve de l'Arne |
Museum number: 1933,0926.10 |
Producer name: After:Giulio ParigiAfter:Remigio Cantagallina |
Production date: 1635 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1854,1020.567 |
Producer name: BIOG43951 Print made by:Christian Bernhard Rode |
Production date: 1786

print

Title: Septentrio The Four Winds |
Museum number: D,6.172 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan Sadeler IAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1580

print

Title: Septentrio Boreas The Four Quarters of the World |
Museum number: 1942,0720.1.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the ElderAfter:Philips Galle |
Production date: 1590

print

Title: Calai e Zeti condotti da Borea et Oritia Le manifique carousel fait sur le fleuve de l'Arne |
Museum number: 1983,U.467 |
Producer name: After:Giulio ParigiAfter:Remigio Cantagallina |
Production date: 1664 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Calai e Zeti condotti da Boreo et Oritia Vessels of the Argonauts for the wedding celebrati |
Museum number: 1861,0713.1476 |
Producer name: Print made by:Remigio CantagallinaAfter:Giulio Parigi |
Production date: 1608

print; ornament print; album

Museum number: 1937,0915.446.130 |
Producer name: Print made by:Daniel Marot IPublished by:Daniel Marot I |
Production date: 1690-1702

print; ornament print

Museum number: 1871,0812.1556 |
Producer name: Print made by:Daniel Marot IPublished by:Daniel Marot I |
Production date: 1686-1703

print; ornament print; album

Museum number: 1937,0915.446.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:Daniel Marot IPublished by:Daniel Marot I |
Production date: 1686-1703

print

Title: Enlèvement d'Orithye |
Museum number: 1896,0618.10 |
Producer name: After:Anne Louis Girodet-TriosonPrint made by:Pierre Claude François Delorme |
Production date: 1825

print; album

Title: Ovid's Metamorphoses |
Museum number: 2AA+,a.31.61 |
Producer name: BIOG18757 Print made by:Johann Wilhelm Baur |
Production date: 1641

print; playing-card

Title: Borée et Orithie Jeu des fables |
Museum number: 1856,0510.825 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1644

print

Title: Theatrum Artis Pictoriae |
Museum number: 1850,1021.146 |
Producer name: Print made by:Anton Joseph PrennerAfter:Francesco Solimena |
Production date: 1728

print

Museum number: 1929,0114.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis SchutPublished by:Cornelis Schut |
Production date: 1612-1655

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Borée enlève Orithyie |
Museum number: 1879,0510.189 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:Johannes Sonnenleiter |
Production date: 1780-1800

print

Title: Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma.del Sereniss. Duca di Parma etc. dipinta da Annibale Carracci in |
Museum number: A,3.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Carlo CesioAfter:Agostino Carracci |
Production date: 1657 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: GALERIAE FARNESIANAE ICONES |
Museum number: 1896,1118.114.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pietro AquilaAfter:Annibale Carracci |
Production date: 1674 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Orithije enlevée par Borée Collection d'estampes d'apres les desseins origina |
Museum number: 1858,1113.263 |
Producer name: Print made by:Heinrich Theodor Joseph BislingerPrint made by:Johann Gerhard Huck |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:Düsseldorf (city)Published in:Nuremberg

print

Title: A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cip |
Museum number: 1861,0518.356 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

trefoil-mouth oinochoe

Museum number: 1836,0224.68 |
Producer name: BIOG60001 Painted by:The Pan Painter |
Cultures/periods: x13677 Attic |
Production date: 480BC-460BC |
Production place: Made in:Attica (Greece) |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Vulci

vessel

Museum number: 1873,0614.1 |
Cultures/periods: x101854 Classical Greek |
Production date: 400BC-350BC |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Kalymnos

volute krater

Museum number: 1931,0511.1 |
Producer name: BIOG59253 Attributed to:The Lycurgus Painter |
Cultures/periods: x109520 Apulian (Greek) |
Production date: 350BC-340BC |
Production place: Made in:Puglia