Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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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

    H. 18 in. (45.7 cm)
    Fletcher Fund, 1924 (24.97.5)

    A major labor of Herakles was to bring to Mycenae the golden apples of the Garden of the Hesperides, which lay far to the west and which was guarded by the serpent Ladon. In the usual account, Herakles kills Ladon and takes the apples. However, in the scene on this hydria, the Garden of the Hesperides appears to have become a sanctuary of Dionysos, and Pan, part goat and part man, observes the affair.

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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

    H. 18 in. (45.7 cm)
    Fletcher Fund, 1924 (24.97.5)