Art Friday : Myth and History Lessons, Genzoman Style!
Gonzalo Ordonez is one truly prolific artist of mythical and historical personages. A significant portion of his works adorn the cards of the Chilean collectible card game Myths and Legends and according to the official site, there’re already 27 editions for this CCG!
Scores of mythical characters from various cultures can be found in his deviantART gallery where he’s better known as Genzoman. There are mighty gods and heroes from well-known Greek mythology to lesser known (but no less interesting) characters from Inca mythology, Middle Eastern lore and medieval epics among others.
© Gonzalo Ordonez
Hector and Achilles : The two main protagonists of Homer’s Greek epic The Illiad.
© Gonzalo Ordonez
Athena – patron of Athens and goddess of wisdom, creative arts, war and heroism (Wikipedia)
© Gonzalo Ordonez
Mama Quilia, the Inca goddess of the moon. (Wikipedia)
© Gonzalo Ordonez
Ninigi no Mikoto, grandson of the Japanese Sun goddess Amaterasu. Quoted from jref.com :
The Japanese Imperial family is said to descend in straight line from this august grandchild of Goddess Amaterasu, things they haven’t disproved yet, and that many older Japanese still believe firmly.
© Gonzalo Ordonez
Lilith – Mesopotamian storm demon (Wikipedia)
© Gonzalo Ordonez
The demon Forneus from The Lesser Key of Solomon.
© Gonzalo Ordonez
The titular Brittanian knight from the Catalan epic Tirant lo Blanch, considered as the major influence for Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel Don Quixote.
As from the historical characters, they run the gamut from warriors from ancient times to modern history to even female pirates 
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© Gonzalo Ordonez
Charles Martel, founder of the Carolingian Empire. (Wikipedia)
© Gonzalo Ordonez
© Gonzalo Ordonez
William Wallace, who led a Scottish army together with Andrew Moray to victory over the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. (Wikipedia)
© Gonzalo Ordonez
The notorious female pirate, Anne Bonny. (Wikipedia)
© Gonzalo Ordonez
Carmen Serdan, sister of Aquiles Serdan, the first martyr of the Mexican Reovlution of 1910. More info on the Serdans can be found at History of The Americas.
Granted, these colourful depictions aren’t the most accurate illustrations of their historical or mythical counterparts but if they don’t simulate your interest in mythology and history, I have little doubt that anything else can 
Check out Gonzalo Ordonez’s other works at DeviantART.
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He’s got some fine (sorry “foine”) content on his page. Dang. I’ve seen his work before, have you featured him in an earlier post?
That’s a pretty boobalicious Athena there. Not exactly what I picture when I think of the virgin goddess of wisdom.
Yep, I previously featured his work on the post about the free Artzmania e-magazines
Nice!
I can see he used some design ideas for Achilles from the movie TROY… Very cool look.
Glad that you liked it. He’s rather prolific too – I think I must have collected over 50+ of his artworks over a few months period