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Hercules steels the apples from the Hesperides
Marco Marchetti1555/1556
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
This is one of the labours of Hercules, during which the hero manages to take away the precious golden apples kept in the garden of the Hesperides, the daughters of the Night, watched by the dragon Ladone. Photo: Fotografia d' Arte di Paolo Tosi
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- Title: Hercules steels the apples from the Hesperides
- 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: w150 x h85 cm (Complete)
- Period: Mannerism
- Original title: Ercole ruba i pomi delle Esperidi
- Type: oil painting on wood
- Rights: Comune di Firenze, Comune di Firenze
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