Hercules and Antaeus
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| Caption | Hercules, wearing a lion's skin, lifts the giant, Antaeus, over his head. The figures are seen foreshortened from below. An inscriptional ribbon below the two figures reads: SIC PEREAT QVISQVIS TERRA GENITRICE SVPERBIT. The drawing is in the shape of a circle, with two triangular-shaped corners protruding from the lower left and lower right. Made in: Italy. Date: 1800s. Record ID: chndm_1948-118-40. |
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| Creator | Annibale Carracci, after, Italian (1560–1609) |
| Artwork medium | Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash on cream paper |
| Credit | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
| Search stock images by keyword | Hercules wearing lion skin lifts giant Antaeus head figures seen foreshortened Annibale Carracci |
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