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Hercules Segers's Printed Paintings

March 9, 2017

By Nadine M. Orenstein

Curator Nadine Orenstein compares the dynamic range of colors and moods Hercules Segers created in different impressions of etchings made from a single printing plate.
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Hercules Segers's Unique Three-Tone Etching Process

April 13, 2017

By Nadine M. Orenstein

Curator Nadine Orenstein outlines Hercules Segers's etching process using examples of the artist's work currently on view in the exhibition The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers.
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Hercules Segers: An Imaginist in a Land of Realists

January 12, 2017

By Nadine M. Orenstein

Curator Nadine M. Orenstein introduces readers to the 17th-century Dutch artist Hercules Segers, the focus of the upcoming exhibition The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers, opening February 13, 2017.
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The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers

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Textiles in Lyon

October 3, 2013

By Daphne Birdsey

I am currently traveling as a Museum representative on a Travel with the Met program Dukes, Popes & Painters: Lyon to Arles aboard MS AmaDagio. This morning we arrived in Lyon to spend the day before we begin a seven-night cruise along the Saône and Rhône rivers.
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The Artist Project: Glenn Ligon

June 22, 2015
Artist Glenn Ligon reflects on _The Great Bieri_ in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Who Was Rembrandt's Favorite Artist?

February 7, 2017

By Nadine M. Orenstein

Curator Nadine M. Orenstein details the great admiration Rembrandt had for the work of Hercules Segers and highlights some of the etchings he produced using Segers's own printing plate.
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The Globe-trotting Coin

August 4, 2015

By Fatima Quraishi

Hagop Kevorkian Fellow Fatima Quraishi examines how Islamic leaders used currency as symbols of their faith and the global stature of their empires.
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The Labors of Herakles

January 1, 2008

By Colette Hemingway

Herakles, the Greek hero of superhuman strength, was the son of the Greek god Zeus and Alkmene.
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Why the brick lions that protected the streets of Babylon feel alive

October 1, 2013

By Sarah Graff

"It always had this possibility to come alive in a very real sense."
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Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion

Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) (Italian, Verona 1467–1528 Verona)

Date: early 16th century
Accession Number: 1986.319.18

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Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) (Italian, Venice ca. 1490–after 1536 Rome)

Date: 1528
Accession Number: 49.97.104

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Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Date: early 17th century
Accession Number: 1982.60.105

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Smallsword

Attributed to James Morisset (British, London 1738–1815)

Date: ca. 1780–85
Accession Number: 1981.363.1–.3

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Hercules strangling the Nemean lion

Style of Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) (Italian, Verona 1467–1528 Verona)

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 18.70.12

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Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion

Style of Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) (Italian, Verona 1467–1528 Verona)

Date: early 16th century
Accession Number: 31.33.10

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Left corner of a marble sarcophagus: Herakles and the Nemean Lion

Copy of work attributed to Lysippos

Date: ca. 170–180 CE
Accession Number: 18.145.56

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Cameo with Hercules and the Nemean Lion within a Garland

Date: ca. 1220–40
Accession Number: 38.150.23

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Wrestler's Weight with Hercules and the Nemean Lion; Wrestling Scene (reverse)

Date: ca. 1st century
Accession Number: 1994.112

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Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Date: late 17th century
Accession Number: 1982.60.96