Drawings
Hercules and the Cretan Bull
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In Hercules’ seventh labor (of twelve), he is tasked with subduing the bull from the sea that Poseidon had sent to King Minos of Crete.
Fuseli closely based his Hercules on one of the two athletes (sometimes identified as the Dioscuri, or Castor and Pollux) from the ancient sculpture called the Horse Tamers on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, a work Fuseli greatly admired. He presents Hercules foreshortened as if seen from below, his recipe for creating a sense of “Grandeur” in art.
(Eccentric Visions, 2015)
Fuseli closely based his Hercules on one of the two athletes (sometimes identified as the Dioscuri, or Castor and Pollux) from the ancient sculpture called the Horse Tamers on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, a work Fuseli greatly admired. He presents Hercules foreshortened as if seen from below, his recipe for creating a sense of “Grandeur” in art.
(Eccentric Visions, 2015)
