1521
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Hercules and Antaeus is a 1521 ink by Marcantonio Raimondi, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This engraving shows Hercules lifting Antaeus high off the ground. The giant’s legs dangle as Hercules breaks his grip. The muscles in both figures strain against each other. Raimondi made this with tiny lines pressed into metal. It creates sharp light and dark areas. The lines also show Antaeus’s hair and Hercules’s lion skin in detail. See it in person at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Marcantonio Raimondi, often called simply Marcantonio (c. 1470/82 – c. 1534), was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings. He…
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