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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure NAM-can-017. Heracles (Hercules) holding his club and standing victorious over the defeated polycephalic Lernean Hydra with its multiple extremities terminating with the canine heads; lying on the ground: flaming torch used for cauterizing the stumps of the severed Hydra's heads to prevent them from growing again by Heracles' charioteer, lover and genetically "half"-nephew Iolaos (son of Iphicles, son of Alcmene and her human husband, Theban general Amphitryon, and heteropaternally superfecundated half maternal twin brother of Heracles, son of Zeus, not depicted) (The Second Labour); herd of centaurs, possibly including Nessus, Chiron or Pholus, all eventual victims of the Heracles' arrows poisoned with the Hydra's blood; tricephalic giant Geryon, also the victim of the toxic Hydra's blood, delivered by an arrow and the dying guardian of the Geryon's cattle Eurytion (The Tenth Labour); the Erymanthian Boar (The Fourth Labour). |
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| Wax, bloodstone | Low relief (Model for a medal, carved decoration, reverse, detail) |
Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656-1740 AD) |
Italian Baroque, 1682 AD |
TBD | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Inventory № 29252 |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First* Canadian Expedition, 6-8 September 2015, 20-21 May 2017, 1-3 September 2017, 23-24 September 2018). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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