In late 2008, CGSociety launched its largest competition to date called “Steampunk: Myths and Legends”. There was $22,000 in prize money for artists to render traditional myths and legends in the steampunk style, “using elements of gears, springs, brass and steam power.”
The instructions were simple:
Reimagine legendary characters from some of the world’s most ancient stories, such as a steam-powered minotaur, or a zeppelin-mounted Thor, hurling lightning bolts from the sky.
If you’re ever searched for steampunk art, you may have seen at least a few of the images that were entered into the competition. It yielded some iconic steampunk artworks.
The competition page no longer exits. The most recent version I can find in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is from September 2010. Sadly, many of the images don’t work.
So I did a bit of sleuthing around the Internet and found the following entries, including Fabricio Moraes’ winning artwork: Steampunk Pinocchio. Enjoy!
Pinocchio by Fabricio Moraes 
Fairy by Laurent Pierlot 
Steam Octopus by Alex Broeckel 
Odysseus’ departure by Olek Zemplinski 
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Guillaume Dubois 
David and Goliath by Roger Nobs 
Monkey King versus King Kong by Jack Zhang 
The fall of Hyperion by Marcin Jakubowski 
The fall of Icarus by Nigel Quarless 
Sleeping Beauty by Antonio Caparo 
Don Quixote by Marek Madej