Lernaean Hydra - Hercules and The Hydra in Art

Hercules and The Hydra in Art

  • Caeretan black-figure hydria (ca. 525 BC)

  • Mosaic from Roman Spain (201–250 AD)

  • Silver sculpture (1530s)

  • Engraving (1545) by Hans Sebald Beham

  • Gustave Moreau (1876)

  • John Singer Sergeant (1921)

Read more about this topic:  Lernaean Hydra

Famous quotes containing the words hercules and, hercules, hydra and/or art:

    How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
    As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
    The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
    Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
    As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
    The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
    Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    To “give style” to one’s character—a rare and noble art! Those practice it who compass all that their natures present as strengths and weaknesses and then fit them into an artistic plan until every one appears as art and reason and even weakness enchants the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)