File:Albrecht Dürer - Hercules at the Crossroad - 1961.170 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Albrecht Dürer: Hercules at the Crossroad  wikidata:Q18338508 reasonator:Q18338508
Artist
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
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artist QS:P170,Q5580
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Title
Hercules at the Crossroad
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Genre mythology Edit this at Wikidata
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In his journal, Dürer referred to this engraving as The Hercules; however, art historians have not found a legend that clearly explains the scene. A fully dressed woman personifying Virtue prepares to bludgeon Pleasure and her satyr lover, a mythical woodland creature associated with lust and drunkenness. Hercules intervenes to protect them. Throughout the composition, Dürer contrasted signs of civilization and wilderness, such as the castle and the mountains in the background. Also, Hercules wields a rough club torn from the ground, whereas Virtue’s stick is cut and hewn. In two places, human feet and the wild satyr’s hooves point at each other, including one instance where Dürer’s monogram, AD, appears between them.
Date circa 1498
date QS:P571,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium engraving
Dimensions height: 32.5 cm (12.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 22.3 cm (8.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+32.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+22.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q657415
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1961.170
Place of creation Germany, late 15th-early 16th century
Credit line Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.170
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