Mermaid

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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.

[edit] Mermaid gallery

Double tailed Mermaid (16th century)

Arnold Böcklin: Das Spiel der Najaden, 1886

John Collier: The Land Baby, 1899

Knut Ekvall The Fisherman and The Siren

Frederic Leighton: The Fisherman and the Syren , around 1856

"A Mermaid" by John William Waterhouse, 1905.

Den lille Havfrue by Vilhelm Pedersen

Advertisement in The Ladies' World, March 1896

Paul Avril: Sappho, 1906

Franz von Stuck: Faun und Nixe, 1918

Mermaid from Clonfert Cathedral Co. Galway, Ireland

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

Mural in Bangkok, Thailand

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

[edit] Sculptures

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

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

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

pl:Warszawska Syrenka

Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo, Sirene and two lions

Mermaid in Bamberg, germany

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

Mermaid by William Bloye

Relief by William Bloye

Escultura, plaza de Chonchi, Chile

Sirens in Drøbak (Norway)

[edit] See also

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