0528HeraclesChoice

0528HeraclesChoice_Poussin

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Xenophon Memorabilia 2.1.21-34

Nicholas Poussin, "The Choice of Hercules," mid-1630's, Stourhead House Collection

Reid lists:
Wright 1985, no.116, pl. 158; Blunt 1966, no. 159 -- ill.; also Thuillier 1974, no. B35 -- ill.; E. Panofsky, Hercules am Schiedeweg, und andere antike Bildstoffe in der neueren Kunst, Studien 1930, pp. 140ff., pl. 63.

A classical painting depicting Adam and Eve being tempted, with a nude man and woman, and a cherubic figure holding flowers

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