Sun November 24, 2013
Hercules: Renaissance Hero
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at Cantor Arts Center
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With images by Albrecht Durer, Hendrick Golzius, and 12 of their contemporaries, this exhibition illustrates how Renaissance artists imagined Hercules, a mythical Greek demigod endowed with exceptional strength. The 26 prints and drawings on view show him in both guises by which he was then known: as a hero performing extraordinary feats and and as an exemplar of virtue, a role he was given by humanists who viewed his deeds allegorically
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With images by Albrecht Durer, Hendrick Golzius, and 12 of their contemporaries, this exhibition illustrates how Renaissance artists imagined Hercules, a mythical Greek demigod endowed with exceptional strength. The 26 prints and drawings on view show him in both guises by which he was then known: as a hero performing extraordinary feats and and as an exemplar of virtue, a role he was given by humanists who viewed his deeds allegorically
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Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94305
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