Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides [SEP] creator
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides is a 1638 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It measures 246 cm by 168.5 cm and is now in the Sabauda Gallery in Turin. It shows Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides and forms part of a pair with the same artist's "Deianira Listens to Fame".
External links.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150924020521/http://www.galleriasabauda.beniculturali.it/catalogo/#page/826
slaying the Hydra did not count (because Iolaus helped Hercules), neither did cleaning the Augean Stables (either because he was paid for the job or because the rivers did the work).
The first additional labour was to steal the apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Hercules first caught the Old Man of the Sea, the shape-shifting sea god, to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located.
In some variations, Hercules, either at the start or at the end of this task