Dürer Hercules
Hercules as depicted in Albrecht Dürer's star chart of the northern sky (1515). The figure of Heracles is shown trampling the dragon's head with his left foot, holding a club in his right hand, and wearing a lion's skin draped over his left arm.
- Date
- 1515
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 818 × 818 pixels
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