Hercules Killing Nessus, From the Labors of Hercules

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Hercules Killing Nessus, From the Labors of Hercules

Sebald BehamLinkedCulture matchlcp-5723f6604697

Date
1542
Medium
Engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
124318

The legendary strongman Hercules was born to the god Zeus and a mortal named Alcmena. This union so incensed Zeus’s wife Hera that she made life almost unbearable for the hero. Her ire resulted in him undertaking a series of tasks, known as the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Sebald Beham challenged his audience’s knowledge of the classical text, engraving three actual labors and nine scenes of Hercules’ exploits before and after his labors. When the centaur Nessus offends Hercules’ wife Deianeira, Hercules shoots him with an arrow dipped in the hydra’s lethal blood. Germany, Europe

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Gift of Elizabeth, Julie, and Catherine Andrus in memory of John and Marion Andrus

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