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Hercules kills the lion Nemean
Marco Marchetti1555/1556
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
This is one of the labours of Hercules, during which the hero manages to kill a fierce lion ravaging the area of Nemea and provided with an invulnerable skin, suffocating it. Since then, its skin and head turned into the hero's mantle and helmet. Photo: Fotografia d' Arte di Paolo Tosi
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- Title: Hercules kills the lion Nemean
- Creator Lifespan: ca. 1527 - 1588
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Faenza
- Creator Birth Place: Faenza
- Date Created: 1555/1556
- painter: Marco Marchetti from Faenza
- Theme: mythological subject
- Physical Dimensions: w123 x h85 cm (Complete)
- Period: Mannerism
- Original title: Ercole uccide il leone Nemeo
- Type: oil painting on wood
- Rights: Comune di Firenze, Comune di Firenze
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