Hercules / Albrecht Dürer
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.78
- Title
- Hercules
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- (Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)
- Medium and Support
- engraving on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1498
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
- Inscription
- Signed with monogram, in plate, l.c.: AD (see object file) Collectors' stamps on verso: Lugt 32b; Lugt 1880
- Dimensions
- 31.6 cm x 22.1 cm (12 7/16 in. x 8 11/16 in.)
- Century
- Late 15th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Secondary Object Type
- engraving
- Physical Description
- A nude man seen from behind raises a staff to ward off the blow of a standing female figure, also with a staff. The woman's swing is directed to two seated figures at the lower left: a nude woman and a satyr. In the distance is an elaborate gated city and landscape.
- Subject Matter
- Dürer combines myth, in the figures of Hercules and the satyr, with allegory, the seated woman possibly a figure of Vice and the standing woman representing Virtue. The interpretation of the scene remains enigmatic.
- Primary Keywords
- allegories
- children (people by age group)
- ch‚teaux
- engravings
- fighting
- forests
- intaglio printing
- trees
- Secondary Keywords
- settlement area
- transfer method
- buildings and the land
- country houses
- cultural landscapes
- cultural landscapes by location or context
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- document genres for literary works
- dwellings
- houses
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- houses by location or context
- image-making processes and techniques
- information forms
- intaglio prints
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by age group
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- plants
- printing
- printing and printing processes and techniques
- prints
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- prints by process or technique
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- residential structures
- rural houses
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
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- single built works by specific type
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 817 x 1175
- File Size
- 145 KB
- Record
- 1956/1.78
- Link to this Item
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"Hercules; Albrecht Dürer." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1956-sl-1.78/1956_1.78.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.
