EditorialThe Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpent, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on light blue paper, Alcmene and Amphitryon shown leaving their bed. Lamp stands at right., Italy, 1813, figures, Drawing, Drawing.
EditorialIphicles Saved from a Serpent by his Brother Hercules, ca. 1450, Italian, Padua, Terracotta, Overall (confirmed): 20 1/4 ? 23 5/16 ? 4 7/8 in., 48.3 lb. (51.4 ? 59.2 ? 12.4 cm, 21.9 kg), Sculpture, In myth, the Greek princess Alcmena gave birth simulta...
EditorialItaly. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Young Heracles strangling the snakes, sent by Juno, before the eyes of Alcmena, Amphitryon and his father (Jupiter is depicted as an eagle, flown down to the altar). Fresco, 60-79 CE. Campania.
EditorialThe painting shows Hercules as a baby killing two snakes with his bare hands to protect his twin brother Iphicles, while his mother Alcmene watches distraught. Amphitryon, a prince of Argos, clutches his sword, while a teacher in slave robes clutches t...
EditorialItaly. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Young Heracles strangling the snakes, sent by Juno, before the eyes of Alcmena, Amphitryon and his father (Jupiter is depicted as an eagle, flown down to the altar). Fresco, 60-79 CE. Campania.
EditorialItaly. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Young Heracles strangling the snakes, sent by Juno, before the eyes of Alcmena, Amphitryon and his father (Jupiter is depicted as an eagle, flown down to the altar). Fresco, 60-79 CE. Campania.
EditorialThe painting shows Hercules as a baby killing two snakes with his bare hands to protect his twin brother Iphicles, while his mother Alcmene watches distraught. Amphitryon, a prince of Argos, clutches his sword, while a teacher in slave robes clutches t...
EditorialThe painting shows Hercules as a baby killing two snakes with his bare hands to protect his twin brother Iphicles, while his mother Alcmene watches distraught. Amphitryon, a prince of Argos, clutches his sword, while a teacher in slave robes clutches t...
EditorialIphicles Saved from a Serpent by his Brother Hercules, ca. 1450, Italian, Padua, Terracotta, Overall (confirmed): 20 1/4 ? 23 5/16 ? 4 7/8 in., 48.3 lb. (51.4 ? 59.2 ? 12.4 cm, 21.9 kg), Sculpture, In myth, the Greek princess Alcmena gave birth simulta...
EditorialPapilio tydeus (Amphitryon butterfly, Papilio amphitryon). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.
EditorialThe painting shows Hercules as a baby killing two snakes with his bare hands to protect his twin brother Iphicles, while his mother Alcmene watches distraught. Amphitryon, a prince of Argos, clutches his sword, while a teacher in slave robes clutches t...