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Woodcut of a muscular Hercules raising a club among nude and draped figures in a columned hall, with an arch opening onto a distant landscape.

Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

A chiaroscuro woodcut showing a muscular, bare-chested Hercules raising a club above his head among seated and standing figures in a colonnaded architectural setting. Nude and draped women sit at the lower right, while a man on the left gestures toward them, and an arched opening reveals a distant landscape.

Artist
Ugo da Carpi
Date
ca. 1520–27
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2798 × 3589 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1532).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920

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