Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides information

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides is a 1638 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It measures 246 cm by 168.5 cm and is now in the Sabauda Gallery in...

In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες, Greek pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and golden light...

The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the...

way to the garden of the Hesperides, Hercules had to cross the mountain that was once Atlas. Instead of climbing the great mountain, Hercules used his...

The Farnese Hercules (Italian: Ercole Farnese) is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed...

way to the garden of the Hesperides on the island of Erytheia, Hercules had to cross the mountain that was once Atlas. Instead of climbing the great mountain...

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man or The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve (ca. 1615) is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (figures) and...

columns. Frescoes in the caldarium depicting Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides are painted in the "Third Style" (also called the Ornate Style) dating...

in the popular culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. A series of nineteen Italian Hercules movies of the "Sword and sandal" film genre were made in...

jumble of the bodies of the damned, hurled into the abyss by archangel Michael and accompanying angels. In 1959, an art vandal threw acid on the painting...

and the Elders, 1609–1610, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, The Garden of Eden with the Fall...

and later classical myths of Hercules. In the Etruscan tradition, Uni (Roman Juno) grants Hercle access to a life among the immortals by offering her...

location matches most closely the description given in classical texts of Atlantis and the garden of the Hesperides, he notes that the ripe fruits look like small...

and Hercules is a 1947 mural painting by Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts a bluejeans-wearing Hercules wrestling with the horns of a bull, a shape the protean...

in the Hermitage Museum, in St Petersburg. It was sold in The Hague for 1210 guilders in 1760 and eight years later was acquired in Brussels for the Hermitage...

courtyard. The courtyard opens into a Baroque garden that he also planned. In the adjacent studio, he and his students executed many of the works for which...

In 1671 an argument broke out in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris about whether drawing or color was more important in painting...