0532HeraclesCacus

0532HeraclesCacus_Goltzius

360-view of P'zza della Signoria
Vergil Aeneid 8.185-270

Hendrik Goltzius, "Hercules and Cacus," woodcut, 1588

Another version by Goltzius presents the scene as an "allegory of the arts, virtue defeating envy", according to Reid. 0532HeraclesCacus_Goltzius2

Image from ARTstor, according to terms and conditions.

Hercules slaying Cacus, a muscular figure raises a club to strike a creature in a dark, dynamic scene with other figures and bones

V. Bush, "Bandinelli's 'Hercules and Cacus' and Florentine Traditions," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 35 (1980) 163-206. JSTOR URL: http://
www.jstor.org/stable/4238682

cf. 0532HeraclesCacus_Bandinelli

0532NOTHeraclesCacus_Kern

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.