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Muscular nude man in a cave lifts a struggling figure overhead in an olive-green chiaroscuro woodcut.

Hercules Killing Cacus

A muscular nude man in a cave raises his arms high, gripping the legs of a struggling figure while the captive writhes below. Other figures and scattered bones fill the rocky, shadowed setting of this olive-green chiaroscuro woodcut.

Artist
Hendrick Goltzius
Date
1588
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in black, yellow and olive-green, on ivory laid paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 2079 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1588).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Alfred E. Hamill

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