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Pluto and Cerberus
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo
early 17th century
Pluto and Cerberus
Tiziano Aspetti
ca. 1588
Sardonyx cameo fragment with Hercules tying up Cerberus
Greek or Roman
1st century BCE–1st century CE
Hercules Killing Cerberus
Master F. P.
16th century
Hercules and Cerberus
Aegidius Sadeler II
1586–1629
Jasper intaglio: Serapis-Hades with Kerberos
Roman
1st century CE
Terracotta lamp
Roman
late 1st–2nd century CE
Carnelian intaglio: Serapis-Hades with Kerberos
Roman
1st century BCE–3rd century CE
Plate 68: Hercules and Cerberus (Cerberum domat Hercules), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Antonio Tempesta
1606
Silver votive plaque
Roman
late 2nd–3rd century CE
Hercules Killing Cerberus
Master F. P.
1500–50
Plate 7: Pluto in a niche, holding a bident, with Cerberus next to him, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
1526
Plate 7: Pluto in a niche, holding a bident, with Cerberus next to him, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
1526
Orpheus
Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano)
1600–1601
Hercules and Cerberus: Hercules grasps the collar of Cerberus, two demons appear at left, from "The Labors of Hercules"
Antonio Tempesta
1608
Hercules Capturing Cerberus, from "The Labors of Hercules"
Sebald Beham
1545
Hercules Capturing Cerberus from The Seven Labors of Hercules
Sebald Beham
1520–40
Hercules Casts Cerberus into Chains from The Labours of Hercules
Cornelis Cort
1563
Wilton album, folio 18i: Hercules Killing the Three-Headed Monster Cerberus
Master F. P.
1527–50
The State Cerberus, A Leaf Out of the Ænead, Freely Translated
John Doyle
December 11, 1834
Hercules and Cerberus, from The Labors of Hercules
Heinrich Aldegrever
1550
Hercules and Cerberus, from "The Labors of Hercules"
Heinrich Aldegrever
1550
Hercules and Cerberus (Cerberum domat Hercules), plate 68 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)
Antonio Tempesta
Published after 1606
Fountain with Hercules and Cerberus at the top, from Grandes fontaines, plate 4
Jean Le Pautre
17th century
Hercules and Cerberus, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata"
Anonymous, Italian, 16th century
published ca. 1599–1622
Fountain with Hercules and Cerberus at the top, from Grandes fontaines, plate 4, bound in Oeuvres. Vol. II
Jean Le Pautre
17th century
Jupiter with a thunderbolt
Joseph de Levis
late 16th–early 17th century
Medal: Ippolita Gonzaga
Leone Leoni
model 1551 (possibly cast 19th century)
Hercules Delivering the Erymanthean Boar to Eurystheus
François Lespingola
last quarter 17th century
Plate 26: Psyche enters the underworld giving an offering to Cerberus, with two elderly women at left, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"
Master of the Die
1530–60