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Hercules slaying Antaeus, c. 1460, is a painting by the Florentine artist Antonio del Pollaiuolo. It is small at 6 x 3 1/2 inches, painted in egg tempera on a panel of wood. It is now in the Uffizi gallery, Florence. The painting shows the mythical giant Antaeus, son of Gaia, goddess of the Earth, being crushed to death in the arms of Heracles ...
Antonio del Pollaiuolo (UK: / ˌ p ɒ l aɪ ˈ w oʊ l oʊ / POL-eye-WOH-loh, [1] US: / ˌ p oʊ l-/ POHL-, [2] Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo del pollaˈjwɔːlo]; 17 January 1429/1433 – 4 February 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiuolo (also spelled Pollaiolo), was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, engraver, and goldsmith, who made important works in all ...
Hercules and Antaeus (Hans Baldung) Hercules and Deianira; Hercules and Omphale (Boucher) Hercules and Omphale (Rubens) Hercules and the Hydra (Pollaiuolo) Hercules and the Hydra (Zurbarán) Hercules and the lion of Nemea (Louvre Museum, L 31 MN B909) Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion (Zurbarán) Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides ...
Hercules and the Hydra (c. 1475) by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. Hercules and the Hydra is a c. 1475 tempera grassa-on-panel painting by Antonio del Pollaiuolo, forming a pair with the same artist's Hercules slaying Antaeus. [1] Both works are now in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. [2]
Hercules and Antaeus, engraving 1490–1500, School of Mantegna As with Andrea Mantegna , the dominant Italian printmaker of the period, based mostly in Mantua , the suggestion has been made that Pollaiuolo may not have engraved the plate himself, but hired a specialist to work from his design.
Hercules and Deianira; Hercules and the Hydra (Pollaiuolo) Hercules Slaying Antaeus; M. Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Pollaiuolo) P. Portrait of a Woman (Pollaiuolo)
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Reproductions of statuettes in bronze were widespread in the Renaissance, due to the large number of collectors. In Florence, Antonio Pollaiuolo (Hercules and Antaeus) and Andrea del Verrocchio (Winged Boy with Fish) were the initiators, commissioned by the Medici.