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Hero Land
Hero Land
1917
The Promised Land
Franklin Simmons
1873–74; carved 1874
Trojans Land Near Mount Etna; Beneath Lies the Giant Enceladus (Aeneid, Book III)
Master of the Aeneid
ca. 1530–35
Terracotta amphora (jar)
Lysippides Painter
ca. 520–510 BCE
Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe
Eugène Delacroix
1823
Mwanangana (lord of the land) playing a sanza
Chokwe artist
19th century (before 1869)
The Dream of Aeneas
Salvator Rosa
1660–65
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hero grasping two antelopes by their hind legs
Assyrian
ca. 13th century BCE
Textile Fragment
ca. 1540
"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
dated 741 AH/1341 CE
Wheellock Gun of Philippe de Croy, Prince of Chimay (1526–1595)
Flemish, possibly Antwerp
1551–56
Emiliano Zapata
Diego Rivera
1932
Commemorative female figure
Chokwe artist
Late 19th century
The Orpheus Cup
Jan Vermeyen
1641–42, the jeweled elements on the lid in the form of animals, amorini holding bow and quiver, and the statuettes of Orpheus and Diana, Prague, ca.1600
Puteal (wellhead) with Narcissus and Echo, and Hylas and the Nymphs
Roman
2nd century
The Disillusioned Medea
Paulus Bor
ca. 1640
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen
ca. 1624–25
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)
1779
Aneurin Bevan (Heroes of Our Time – 4)
Ronald Searle
October 31, 1956
Plate 16: Emiliano Zapata taken prisoner because of his support for peasants, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)
Ignacio Aguirre
1947
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Achaemenid
ca. 5th century BCE
T. S. Eliot (Heroes of Our Time – 5)
Ronald Searle
November 14, 1956
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau
1864
Orpheus and Eurydice
Marcantonio Raimondi
ca. 1500–1506
Standing cup
German, Silesia
1741
Emiliano Zapata
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1930
Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina
Francesco Rosaspina
1805–12
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx
ca. 1160s–70s
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Charles Le Brun
1647
"Bahram Chubina Kills the Lion-Shaped Ape Monster", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1300–30
Bag with thunderbird
Unrecorded Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) artist
ca. 1790
Monk Renshō Riding His Horse Backwards
Matsumura Goshun
after 1782, ca. 1784
"Kai Kavus Attempts to Fly to Heaven", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
mid-15th century
"The Combat of Rustam and Kafur", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1330–40
Tobacco box
Johann Heinrich Giese
ca. 1760
Standing warrior
ca. late 3rd millennium BCE
Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
1642
"Kai Khusrau, Farangis and Giv Crossing the River Jihun (Oxus)", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
mid-15th century
Plate 72: The president Lázaro Cárdenas on a balcony addressing his supporters, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)
Ignacio Aguirre
1947
Ovid among the Scythians
Eugène Delacroix
1862