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Nessus Abducts Deianira
Sebastiano Riccic. 1700
Kunsthaus Zürich
Zurich, Switzerland
The centaur Nessus provides ferry services; when he tries to take Hercules' wife Deianeira, he is shot by the latter (Ovid, Metamorphoses, IX, 101-133).
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- Title: Nessus Abducts Deianira
- Creator: Sebastiano Ricci
- Creator Lifespan: 1659 – 1734
- Creator Death Place: Venice, Italy
- Creator Birth Place: Belluno, Italy
- Date Created: c. 1700
- Physical Dimensions: 219 x 267 cm
- Type: painting
- External Link: Kunsthaus Zürich, Online Collection
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Art Movement: Baroque
- Original title: Nesso rapisce Deianira
- Inventory number: KS 56
- Credit line: Kunsthaus Zürich, The Betty and David Koetser Foundation, 1986
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