Art Institute of Chicago
Hercules at the Crossroads (Jealousy)
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-6cf5b58b91f0
- Date
- c. 1498
- Medium
- Engraving in black on off-white laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 21452
Renaissance humanists were fascinated by antiquity— its mythic heroes, surviving architecture, coins, and sculpture. Noblemen even demanded that the historians inflating their family trees make them stretch all the way back to Hercules and other demigods. Historical figures were occasionally given mythological nicknames, like the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, who was sometimes known by his supporters as the “German Hercules.” These two Hercules prints by Albrecht Dürer fed the fascination with this hero’s legendary strength, dogged perseverance in the 12 Labors, and tragic, inescapable fate.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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