Hercules

Piero della Francesca, 1465, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

‘Hercules’ is a work by Piero della Francesca (Italy, 1415–1492). It is dated 1465. It is part of the collection Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

It is made of tempera and plaster. It measures 151 × 126 cm. The work belongs to the genre mythological painting. The things depicted include Heracles.

The catalogue has 29 more works by Piero della Francesca.

• The Renaissance