MAKE A MEME View Large Image Stradanus - Dish with Hercules Overcoming Cerberus - Walters 481330.jpg Hercules captured Cerberus the vicious three-headed dog who guards the entrance to the underworld as the last of his twelve Labors Stradanus arrived in Florence in 1546 ...
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Keywords: Stradanus - Dish with Hercules Overcoming Cerberus - Walters 481330.jpg Hercules captured Cerberus the vicious three-headed dog who guards the entrance to the underworld as the last of his twelve Labors Stradanus arrived in Florence in 1546 and for much of his career worked on commissions for various members of the Medici family principally as a painter He also produced a large number of drawings with hunting scenes for tapestries and for engravings as well as a small number for ceramics Here the fluid expressive style and use of a blue that he employed in his drawings on paper suggest that he drew directly on the dish The initials C D on the back must be those of the master of the workshop where the plate was produced possibly in or near Florence between 1560 1590 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 5 3 33 2 accession number 48 1330 11508 H Wencke Collection Hamburg date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 initials place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Jan van der Straet Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Florence maiolica Capture of Cerberus
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