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The Labors of Hercules: Hercules on his Pyre

Hans Sebald Beham

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white engraving depicting a man on the ground and another man standing. The man on the ground is on his side, on a pile of wood with flames rising around him. He is naked with curly hair and his eyes closed. The man standing to the right is also naked with short hair. He bends over the man on the ground, looking down with one arm around his chin and the other on his knee. He holds a staff or club. A city sits on a hill far in the background and smoke billows to the upper left. A Latin phrase sits on a banner above the standing man's head. A date and signature sits in the bottom right corner beside the artist's monogram. A name sits on the bottom centre.

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1263 × 870 px
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