Mermaid

See also: Category:Mermaids.

English: A mermaid is a legendary creature with a female human head and torso (if it's male, it's called a merman) and the tail of a fish, which inhabits the water.

Español: Sirenas, como criaturas mitológicas marinas.

Italiano: Sirene, come creature leggendarie marine.

Mermaid gallery

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  Double tailed Mermaid (16th century)

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  Arnold Böcklin: Das Spiel der Najaden, 1886

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  John Collier: The Land Baby, 1899

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  Knut Ekvall The Fisherman and The Siren

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  Frederic Leighton: The Fisherman and the Syren , around 1856

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  "A Mermaid" by John William Waterhouse, 1905.

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  Den lille Havfrue by Vilhelm Pedersen

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  Advertisement in The Ladies' World, March 1896

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  Paul Avril: Sappho, 1906

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  Franz von Stuck: Faun und Nixe, 1918

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  Mermaid from Clonfert Cathedral Co. Galway, Ireland

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  Mermaid (adjusted) from Clonfert Cathedral, Co. Galway, Ireland.

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  Mural in Bangkok, Thailand

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  Annette Kellerman in Merrilla, the Queen of the Sea, 1918

Sculptures

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  Detail from San Filippo Neri Church (17th/18th century) in Syracuse (Sicily)

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  Detail of a street lamp, Place de la Concorde, Paris

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  sculpture of a mermaid over a sea creature, made by Antonio Parera Saurina (1868–1946). Detail of the monument to Alfonso XII in the Jardines del Buen Retiro in Madrid (Spain), built from 1902 to 1922

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  pl:Warszawska Syrenka

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  Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo, Sirene and two lions

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  Mermaid in Bamberg, germany

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  Mermaid statue at the Laem Samila beach, Songkhla, Thailand. Statue created in 1966 by Jitr Buabus

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  Mermaid by William Bloye

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  Relief by William Bloye

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  Escultura, plaza de Chonchi, Chile

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  Mermaid & family, Wedgewood button with M.Boulton cut steels, circa 1760 (Britain)

See also

• Category:Sirens