Hercules And The Nemean Lion

It is interesting to note that Moderno’s most famous works are perhaps his plaquettes that depict Hercules and the Nemean lion, the same subject as our work (fig.2).

Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...

This unique panel, depicting a nude Hercules figure with sword in hand, fending off the snarling Nemean lion, represents the first of his famous Twelve Labors.

They depict scenes from ancient mythology, very much in the style of the bronze creations of the sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Gazzuolo, 1460-1528), also called Antico, from ...

An interesting Pink color agate 19th Century cameo depicting Hercules and the Nemean Lion (on Hercules’ head). Nemean Lion symbolizes the need to have a strong exterior and not let o...

Large medallion centered with a gilt silver (vermeil) plaque depicting Hercules strangling the Nemean lion in bas-relief.

Stunning black and white design by Frederick Charles Herrick (1887-1970) of a muscular man fighting and slaying the Nemean lion under the title - Hercules - depicting the first of th...

Comparisons may be drawn with Mantegna’s Allegory of the Fall of Ignorant Humanity in the British Museum, as well as with the British Museum’s Hercules wrestling with Antaeus, attrib...

The theme of this mid century ashtray is of mythological inspiration, to be precise it refers to the epic poem of the 12 Labors of Hercules or Labors of Heracles. In fact, the ashtra...

The heads, both with red beards and differentiated by their headdresses (Hercules wears his characteristic Nemean Lion skin), emerge from the same point and in opposite directions, a...

A very rare authentic ancient Greek silver "diobol" coin from the Greek colony of Taras in Calabria (now in southern Italy) depicts Hercules wrestling with the Nemean lion during the...

The figure stands in the powerful contrapposto stance characteristic of the ancient prototype, leaning on his club draped with the Nemean lion skin, embodying strength and heroic end...

To the left of the figure is a small pedestal on which rest Hercules' two main trophies: the skin of the Nemean lion and the apples from the Garden of the Hesperides.

This French mid-20th C. limestone type composite stone garden figure of Hercules has a strong, classical presence, standing in contrapposto with his large club held at his side and t...

Above is the handsome patinated bronze Hercules leaning on what is likely the skin of the Nemean lion he was tasked to kill by the king.

Very Important Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Palatial Fireplace Surround – “Salon d’Hercules” Versailles The beautiful and rare Breche de Violette marble fireplace frieze is...

A muscular yet weary Hercules leans on his club which has the skin of the Nemean lion draped over it, he holds the golden apples stolen from Hesperides hidden behind his back, in his...

The hero is depicted in contrapposto, leaning against a tree trunk draped with the Nemean lion skin, a defining attribute associated with his first labor.

The iconography of the hero can be deduced, in addition to the vigor of his muscles, from the fact that the man sits on the head of a lion, attributable to the first effort in which ...

This is a very impressive tale lamp, depicting Hercules & the Nemean Lion. Now on view at the Berkshire Galleries of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

A Roman Marble Sculpture of Hercules, Circa 1st / 2nd Century AD The sculpture is nude except for the draped Nemean lion skin.

The subject derives from the Roman marble copy of a Greek original attributed to Glykon of Athens, dating to the early third century AD and discovered in the Baths of Caracalla in Ro...

The hero is depicted holding the club in his right hand, whilst his left rests resolutely on a surface as he holds a flap of the Nemean lion’s skin, which falls over his body like a ...

The sides centred with a mask of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion pelt, Paris, circa 1880.

They appear frequently in Greek mythology, most famously as the Nemean Lion, which Hercules defeated in the first of his Twelve Labours.

His coins depicted him as Heracles (Hercules to the Romans), wearing a lion scalp, symbolising the hero's slaying of the Nemean Lion, the first of the 12 Labours.

Recurring in many Greek myths, the most famous association with the great creature was the Nemean Lion, which Hercules was tasked to kill as the first of his Twelve Labours.

One theory suggests its origin lies in the myth of Hercules fastening the skin of the Nemean lion, slain during his legendary labors, around his neck.

Omphale is shown with the Nemean Lion's fleece at her feet on one side of the dial hodoing holding one end of Hercules' club used to kill the lion, propped against the other side of...

Each andiron is raised by three handsome paw feet and stunning richly chased griffins flanking the mask of Hercules. At the center are finely detailed handsome bearded men draped in ...

The frieze is further decorated with geometric parquetry inlay, incorporating a central floral motif, and is mounted with four ormolu masks of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion skin. ...

The first of Hercules famous 12 labors that he performed as penance, was to slay the Nemean lion, purportedly by strangling it with his bare hands.

The shaped rectangular top enclosing a gilt tooled brown leather writing surface within a molded border above a long central drawer enclosing a fine modeled mask of Hercules wearing ...

The center of the frieze is ornated by a Hercules' head wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, carved in very high relief.

The center of the frieze is ornated by a Hercules' head wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, carved in very high relief.

The body of the vase is detailed with carved Bacchus and Hercules masks and their attributes, club and thyrsus, between two satyrs, the pelt of the Nemean Lion below.

An authentic silver "drachm" coin from ancient Macedon 323-317 BC, minted in the name of Alexander the Great, depicts the Greek hero Hercules. He is shown wearing a lion skin headdr...

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting young nude man with thyrsus and flowers, opposite two young women with fillet, situla, phiale and thyrsus. Above left, Hercules in Nem...

At the center is a handsome and richly chased scrolled foliate ormolu mount of the head of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion skin. The top shelf displays a fine double mottled border ...

The solid marble jambs with gilt-bronze Nemean Lion masks at the top, these are under an arched frieze with a gilt-bronze centre cartouche depicting the mask of Hercules wearing the ...

An authentic silver "drachm" coin from ancient Macedonia 323-317 BC minted under Alexander the Great depicts the Greek mythical hero Hercules wearing a lion skin cape. Mythologically...

Above, Hercules' head on the frieze center is topped by the skin of the Nemean lion.

His coins depicted him as Heracles (Hercules to the Romans), wearing a lion scalp, symbolising the hero's slaying of the Nemean Lion, the first of the 12 Labours.

Omphale is depicted here according to an iconography that has settled in artistic culture over the centuries and which sees her wearing a lion's headdress, since literature tells tha...

His coins depicted him as Heracles (Hercules to the Romans), wearing a lion scalp, symbolising the hero's slaying of the Nemean Lion, the first of the 12 Labours.

Perhaps the most famous example would be the legendary Nemean Lion, a beast with impenetrable fur and razor-sharp claws that no armour could defend against, its ultimate demise comin...

His coins depicted him as Heracles (Hercules to the Romans), wearing a lion scalp, symbolising the hero's slaying of the Nemean Lion, the first of the 12 Labours.

Of shallow break front form this fine parquetry side cabinet has a shaped grey-veined marble top above a concave frieze with acanthus mounts to the angles and centred by a fine mask ...

Each side panel displays an intricately detailed central ormolu mount of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion's skin set on an ebony background with striking seashell palmette reserves a...

A fine presentation sword given to Lieutenant Charles Peake as a token of gratitude by the Men of His Ship when recommissioned for Foreign Service in 1821, the citation reading, the ...

Omphale is the subject of Greek and Roman mythology and was married to Hercules, son of Zeus. She is depicted wearing the skin of the Nemean Lion, slain by Hercules in the first of h...

A Neoclassical pietra dura, micro mosaic and walnut centre table, the circular black marble top with a large central micro mosaic roundel depicting St Peter’s Square, Rome, surrounde...

An important architectural side table after a design by Matthias Lock, the Hercules mask draped with the pelt of the Nemean Lion hung through carved rings, with an architectural desi...

Omphale is pictured standing in front of Hercules, semi-clothed, jeering at him. She is leaning on his club and wearing the lion's pelt Hercules wore to commemorate his victory over ...

The apron centred by a mask of Hercules wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, the head forming a cap with the paws draped below and flanked by tasselled tails and swags of drapery lin...

A very fine and mpressive life-size Italian, early 20th century marble bust of a Greco Roman Warrior, probably Hercules, after the antique. The large beautifully carved and decorated...

A pair of 19th century bronze Grand Tour framed roundels, one depicting Hercules battling the Nemean Lion and another similar plaque detailed with a classical youth pouring water for...