Hercules at the Crossroads (Jealousy)

Prints and Drawings

c. 1498

Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528

Renaissance humanists were fascinated by antiquity— its mythic heroes, surviving architecture, coins, and sculpture. Noblemen even demanded that the historians inflating their family trees make them stretch all the way back to Hercules and other demigods. Historical figures were occasionally given mythological nicknames, like the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, who was sometimes known by his supporters as the “German Hercules.” These two Hercules prints by Albrecht Dürer fed the fascination with this hero’s legendary strength, dogged perseverance in the 12 Labors, and tragic, inescapable fate.

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Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Title: Hercules at the Crossroads (Jealousy)
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1493–1503
Medium: Engraving in black on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 32.3 × 22.2 cm (12 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.); Plate: 32.5 × 22.5 cm (12 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 34.4 × 24.2 cm (13 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1935.163
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Bartsch 73

Meder 63 IIa/f

Strauss 24

Schoch, Mende, & Scherbaum 22

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