Iconography
GODS AND MYTHS
Danaides / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Unknown or lost prototypes / Sarcophagus with Hercules and Cerberus as well as the Danaides
Hercules / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Unknown or lost prototypes / Sarcophagus with Hercules and Cerberus
Hercules / Myths / Labours / Cerberus / Hercules pulling a defeated Cerberus behind him / Miscellaneous
LITERATURE
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Census of Antique Art Known to the Renaissance / Unknown or lost Prototypes / Cover of Sarcophagus with Ulysses and Sirens as well as scenes from the underworld
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XII: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Elpenor, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Cattle of Sol) / vv. 181-191: Ulysses (bound to the mast) and his companions (with their ears stuffed) pass the Sirens
SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
Further details
At the right Mercury as Psychopompos, leading a deceased man away from his wife, then Ulysses passing the Sirens, then Hercules, accompanied by a Satyr and a Maenad (reference to the mysteries he had been initiated into) taking Cerberus, at the right a Danaid filling her jar and two fountain nymphs
Artist or creator
Date
1546 - 1570
Location
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, 79 D 1
Associated persons
Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Book, text or document (source of image)
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Carl Robert, Die Antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. 2, Berlin, 1890, pp. 152-154, no. 52
Rights and Permissions
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Acknowledgements
Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation
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