Works of Art (28)
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Amphora, ca. 530 B.C.; Archaic; red-figure, Signed by Andokides, as potter; Attributed to the Andokides Painter (red-figure decoration); Attributed to Psiax (black-figure decoration), Greek, Attic, Terracotta (63.11.6) |
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Calyx-krater (vessel for mixing wine and water) depicting Herakles, Theseus, and Perithous in Hades, ca. 450440 B.C.; red-figure,
Greek; Attic,
Attributed to the Nekyia Painter,
Terracotta (08.258.21) |
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Cameo with Hercules, ca. 1220, Probably made in southern Italy, Sardonyx with modern gold frame (38.150.23) |
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Childbirth bowl (scodella) with Aeneas Fleeing Troy (interior) and grotteschi (exterior); and tray (tagliere) with Pyramis and Thisbe (top) and Hercules and the Nemean Lion (bottom), ca. 1530–40,
Baldassare Manara (Italian, Faenza),
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (1975.1.1043a,b) |
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Cista with Herakles Amazonomachy, 4th3rd centuries B.C., Italic, Bronze (22.84.2) |
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Column-krater with artist painting a marble statue of Herakles, ca. 350320 B.C.; Red-figure, Greek, South Italian, Apulian,
Attributed to the Group of Boston 00.348, Terracotta (50.11.4) |
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Farnese Hercules,1562, Jacob Bos (Netherlandish, born 's Hertogenbosch), Published by Antonio Lafréri (French), From the Metropolitan Museum's copy of the Speculum Romanae magnificentiae (Mirror of Rome's Magnificence), Engraving (41.72[2.63]) |
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Game Piece, 12th century, German (Probably made in Cologne), Walrus ivory (16.106) |
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The Great Hercules, 1589, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (46.140.28) |
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Hercules and Achelous in the Form of a Bull, ca. 152425, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Veronese or Parmese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (49.50.208) |
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Hercules and Achelous, probably mid-17th century,Attributed to the Master of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian,
Austrian,
Ivory (1982.60.129) |
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Hercules and Antaeus, ca. 1516, Ugo da Carpi (Italian), after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian), Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (22.67.80) |
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Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna, ca. 15001520, Robetta (Cristofano di Michele Martini) (Italian, Florentine), after Antonio Pollaiuolo (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (27.20.2) |
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Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses, ca. 1518 (?), Ugo da Carpi (Italian); Designed by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (20.24.76) |
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Hercules Farnese, ca. 1592 (published and dated 1617), Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (17.37.59) |
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Hydria (water jar) depicting Herakles with women, a satyr, and Pan in the Garden of the Hesperides, early 4th century B.C.; red-figure,
Greek; Attic,
Attributed to the Hesperides Painter,
Terracotta (24.97.5) |
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Hydria (water jar) with the infant Herakles strangling snakes sent by the goddess Hera, ca. 460450 B.C.; red-figure,
Greek; Attic,
Attributed to the Nausicaä Painter,
Terracotta (25.28) |
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Iphicles and Hercules Attacked by Snakes, mid-15th century,
Italy; Padua,
Terracotta (2006.453) |
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Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 500 B.C.; black-figure on white ground,
Attributed to the Sappho Painter,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (41.162.29) |
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Pair of flintlock pistols, 18001801, Samuel Brunn (English); Michael Barnett (English), Steel, wood, silver, gold (1992.330.1-.2) |
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Pendant, ca. 155075, Flemish or German (Cologne?), Boxwood and various woods for marquetry, partly stained (17.190.310) |
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Plaque: Hercules Overcoming the Centaur Nessus, ca. 157080, Annibale Fontana (Italian, Milanese), Rock crystal in enameled gold frame of later date (32.100.237) |
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Ring with head of Herakles, late 4th3rd century B.C.; Hellenistic,
Greek,
Gold (10.132.1) |
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Statue of Herakles seated on a rock, Imperial, 1st or 2nd century A.D.,
Roman; adaptation of a Greek statue of the late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.,
Marble (11.55) |
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Statuette of Herakles, last quarter of 6th century B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Bronze (28.77) |
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Studies for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View, Male Nude Unsheathing a Sword, and the Movements of Water (recto); Study for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Rear View (verso), 1506–8,
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian),
Pen and brown ink, charcoal or soft black chalk (recto), charcoal or soft black chalk (verso) (2000.328a,b) |
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The Triumph of Love, ca. 148590, Francesco Rosselli (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (25.2.33) |
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Thematic Essays (16)
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