print
- Museum number
- Nn,7.40.12
- Description
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Hercules at the cross-roads, he is seated at the right, to the left sit female personifications of Virtue and Vice
Engraving
- Production date
- 1547-1587
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres
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Width: 282 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Lettered title is trimmed off from the bottom of this impression. Unique state.
Most likely after a drawing by Giulio Romano, now lost, and probably related to a bas-relief stucco in the Sala dei Candalabri, Palazzo Te. Until 1823, the copperplate survived in the Calcografia Camerale, Rome, where it was destroyed on the order of Pope Leo XII for its 'immoral' nudes.
See Stefania Massari, ‘Giulio Romano: Pinxit et delineavit’, Rome, 1993, pp. 128; Paolo Bellini, ‘L'opera incisa Adamo e Diana Scultori’, Vicenza, 1991, pp. 62-3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1835
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Nn,7.40.12
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1835,0711.208
