Dish with Hercules and Omphale

ca. 1528-1532 (Renaissance)

27.1 cm 5.9 cm

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This maiolica (Italian tin-glazed earthenware) istoriato (story telling) dish shows Hercules, the Classical strongman and invincible hero, seated at the right before a receding colonnade and identified by his muscular body and the lion skin at his waist. To atone for his rage-...

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37910
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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