Jan de Bisschop Bust of Commodus as Hercules ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
Giulio Bonasone Double Bust of Hercules and Dejanira ca. 1531-76 engraving British Museum |
Rivers level granite mountains,
Rains wash the figures from the sundial,
The plowshare wears thin in the furrow;
And on the fingers of the mighty,
The gold of authority is bright
With the glitter of attrition.
– Sulpicius Lupercus Servasius (4th century) translated by Kenneth Rexroth (1944)
Anonymous Italian artist Fireworks apparatus with statue of Hercules ca. 1580-1620 etching British Museum |
Adamo Scultori Statue of Hercules (front) ca. 1547-87 engraving British Museum |
Adamo Scultori Statue of Hercules (back) ca. 1547-87 engraving British Museum |
Agostino Veneziano Antique Hercules Terms 1536 engraving British Museum |
Giulio Bonasone after Polidoro da Caravaggio Terms of Dejaneira and Hercules ca. 1545-50 engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
after Simon van de Passe Statues of Zeus (center) and Hercules (left) ca. 1614 engraving British Museum |
Claude Mellan Statue of Hercules in the Giustiniani collection 1631 engraving British Museum |
studio of Annibale Carracci Study of the Legs of the Farnese Hercules early 17th century drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Jacopo da Leonardus afer Gaetano Gandolfi Statues of a goddess and of Hercules ca. 1723-82 engraving British Museum |
Robert Sayer Hercules as Ship's Figurehead 1788 mezzotint, etching British Museum |
Philippe Trière Statues of Bacchus and of Hercules at Palazzo Pitti ca. 1789-1807 engraving British Museum |
Johann Heinrich Ramberg Guide to proportion, with figure based on the Farnese Hercules second from left 1805 etching British Museum |