Heracles1.0006_PieroDellaFrancesca

Heracles1.0006_PieroDellaFrancesca

Gardner Museum
OGCMA s.v. "Heracles"
Ovid Met. 1.452-567
Homeric Hymn "To Heracles"
Ovid Met. 9.172ff.
Apollodorus Bibl 2.4.8-8.1

Piero della Francesca, "Hercules," fresco (detached fragment) transferred to canvas, c. 1464 - 1470, Gardner Museum, Boston, inv. no. P15e17

Standard iconography:

lion's skin, club, youthful/mature physique

worth looking into : context, purpose, lion's tail?

A fresco depicting a young, muscular man with dark curly hair, wrapped in a brown cloth, holding a stick.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.