Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- 11 15/16 × 9 1/4 in. (30.3 × 23.5 cm)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1920
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Classical Mythology Both · 99%
The title identifies Hercules and Avarice in a mythological episode, while the image presents a heroic figure pursuing another figure within a classically styled setting.
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Human Figure Both · 99%
Numerous male and female figures occupy the composition, including a dominant standing male figure at center-right.
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Nude Both · 98%
Several female figures are visibly nude or partially draped, consistent with the catalog subject Female Nudes.
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Implied Narrative Both · 97%
The title names a pursuit, and the raised club, grasping gesture, and bent figure at right visually establish an active chase.
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Movement Visual · 95%
The raised club, striding and twisting bodies, diagonal limbs, and flying drapery create pronounced visual action.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 98%
Overlapping figures, architectural elements, trees, clouds, and patterned ground fill nearly the entire image field.
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Linear Forms Visual · 98%
Closely spaced contour lines, parallel hatching, and crosshatching articulate bodies, drapery, architecture, foliage, and terrain.
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Highly Detailed Visual · 95%
The print has a highly articulated surface, with extensive fine linework describing both figures and setting.
Medium and Techniques
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Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 99%
The museum identifies the medium as a chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green.
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Chiaroscuro Metadata · 99%
The work is explicitly cataloged as a chiaroscuro woodcut.
Time Periods
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16th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The museum dates the work to approximately 1520–27, placing it in the sixteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Italian Art Metadata · 98%
The artist is identified as Italian, from Carpi.
Source & rights
Ugo da Carpi. Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.