1990 Mythology Calendar

A VALLEJO MYTHOGRAPHY Boris Vallejo’s mythology calendar 1990 is the best match made in any heaven, as the contemporary master of fantasy art finds his muse in the legends of our heroic past. In thirteen spectacular new paintings he depicts warriors, heroines, gods and goddesses, monsters, sorceresses and furies-and retells the magnificent tales that have haunted man's imagination since the days when the world was young. From Greek mythology comes the abduction of Hercules’s wife by the centaur Nessus (front cover)-the first act in a tragedy of revenge,jealousyy, and madness that destroys the greatest hero of the golden age. Atlas the Titan is punished by Zeus for his part in the war against the gods, and must bear the world on his shoulders through. Out eternity. The Siberian sky god, Es, sends a thunderbolt into a mountain to create the first humans. Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, leads her army into an attack on Athens. Boris conjures up a stunning pantheon of myths and sends all who behold his visions into the forgotten mists of time and memory.