The Fan Museum in Greenwich presents an exhibition of very fine early European fans that show, by subject, the influence of antiquity and the classical tradition on European fan painters, makers and collectors of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The exhibition of over 60 fans and fan leaves drawn from the Museum’s own collections examines the survival of classical imagery in this decorative art. Scenes from the lives of the Gods, the Trojan War, the Heroes and Women in ancient times are all surveyed and explained. The origin of the subject matter depicted in these elegant objects has been solved by scholarly investigation into related paintings, prints and sculptures as the exhibition and it accompanying catalogue reveal.