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Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Heracles
141. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Heracles.
Marble. 3rd—2nd centuries BCE.
Height 13 cm.
Inv. No. A 577.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
142. MOSAIC. Rome.
Attributes of Heracles.
Marble, smalt.
Late 1st — early 2nd century.
Inv. No. E.3133.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
143. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Statuette of Heracles mingens.
Bronze, dark green, solid cast.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Inv. No. Б. 307.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
144. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles and nemean lion; Heracles and Triton.
Black-figure hydria. Attic.
Manner of the Antimenes Painter.
Clay. Carving, white paint. 520—500 BCE.
Inscription on the body: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΣ
Inv. Nos. Б. 1516 / ГР-4443.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
145. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles fleeing with the Delphic tripod.
Red-figure amphora. Attic.
By the Munich Painter, Amphora 2306.
Clay.
505—500 BCE.
Inv. No. Б. 1565 (St. 1639, Б. 602).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
146. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles with a tripod.
Red-figure amphora. Attic.
By the Munich Painter 2306.
Clay. 505—500 BCE.
Inv. No. Б. 1565.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
147. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles-Theseus and the Cretan bull.
Black-figure mastoid. Attic.
Manner of the Haimon painter.
Clay. 490—480 BCE.
Inv. No. Б. 4220.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
148. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles and Nemean lion.
Black-figure amphora. Attic.
By the Munich Painter — amphora 1410.
Clay. 530—520 BCE.
Inv. No. Б. 4367.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
149. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Bust of Hercules.
Bronze. 2nd—3rd centuries.
Dark-brown patina.
Inv. No. В. 494.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
150. SCULPTURE. Pre-Roman Italy.
Heracles.
Bronze. 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. В. 1887.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
151. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles strangling the Nemean lion; Iolaos, Athena, Mercurius.
Black-figure amphora. Attic.
By the “Swing Painter”.
Clay. Ca. 530 BCE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4412 / Б. 1485 (St. 50, Б. 180).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
152. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
Inv. Nos. Гр. 5600 / А. 498.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
153. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
Torsos of Heracles and the lion are fragments of the relief depicting the labours of Heracles from a Roman sarcophagus of the 2nd—3rd centuries (?).
Additions and restoration are Italian work of the 17th century (?).
Inv. No. Гр. 5600 (A. 498).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
154. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
2nd—3rd centuries (?).
Inv. No. Гр. 5600 (A. 498).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
155. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
2nd—3rd centuries (?).
Inv. No. Гр. 5600 (A. 498).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
156. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
2nd—3rd centuries (?).
Inv. No. Гр. 5600 (A. 498).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
157. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Heracles.
Basalt.
Inv. No. Гр. 8988 (А. 780).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
158. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Heracles.
Basalt.
Inv. No. Гр. 8988 (А. 780).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
159. GLYPTICS. Etruria.
Heracles with a monster.
Gemma.
Cornelian. 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. ГР-20880.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
160. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Hercules and Omphale.
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1611—1662).
Oil on canvas. 100 × 133 cm.
Inv. No. ГЭ 1601.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.