Heracles1.0075_Goltzius

Heracles1.0075_Goltzius

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

Hendrik Goltzius, engraving of the "Hercules Victor" or Farnese Hercules.

The inscription: Domito triformi rege Lusitaniae / Raptisque malis quae Hesperi sub cardine / servarat hortis aureis vigil draco / Fesus quievi terror orbis Hercules. // Statua antiqua Romae in palatio Cardinalis Farnesii / opus posthumum H. Goltzius iam primum divulgat An. MDCXVII.

cf. OGCMA0560NOTHeracles_Hampton

Engraving of the Farnese Hercules statue seen from behind, with text and small portraits below

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