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Portrait of Henri IV as Hercules pinning the Hydra of Lerna, an allegory of the Navarrese king's defeat of the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion. Workshop of Toussaint Dubreuil, c. 1600. Greek and Roman writers related that Hera placed the Hydra and crab as constellations in the night sky after Heracles slew him. [14]
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English: Athena, Heracles attacked by the crab and the Lenaean Hydra. White-ground Attic lekythos, ca. 500–475 BC. White-ground Attic lekythos, ca. 500–475 BC. Français : Athena, Héraclès attaqué par le crabe et l'Hydre de Lerne.
Hercules and the Hydra (1634) by Francisco de Zurbarán. Hercules and the Hydra is a 1634 painting by Francisco de Zurbarán of Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. [1] It was from a series of the Labours of Hercules for the Hall of Realms in Madrid's Palacio del Buen Retiro. [2]
Henry IV, as Hercules, vanquishing the Lernaean Hydra (i.e. the Catholic League), by Toussaint Dubreuil, c. 1600 When Cardinal de Bourbon died in 1590, the League could not agree on a new candidate at the Estates General called to settle the question, also attended by the envoys of Spain.
Roman sarcophagus (3rd century AD) depicting a sequence of the Labours of Hercules: the Nemean lion, the Lernaean Hydra, the Erymanthian boar, the Ceryneian hind, the Stymphalian birds, the belt of Hippolyta, the Augean stables, the Cretan Bull, and the Mares of Diomedes
The geographer Strabo attests that the Lernaean waters were considered healing: Lake Lerna, the scene of the story of the Hydra, lies in Argeia and the Mycenaean territory; and on account of the cleansings that take place in it there arose a proverb, 'A Lerna of ills.' Now writers agree that the county has plenty of water, and that, although ...
A. Brook in J. Turner (ed.), The Dictionary of Art, London, 1996, vol. 30, p. 32 Bacchus and Young Satyr:, marble, Louvre Museum.Signed F. SUSINI; Venus Burning the Arrows of Love and Venus Chastising love bronzes, Louvre Museum, both signed and dated 1639