c. 1602
Hercules Slaying the Hydra, from the Hercules Fountain in Augsburg
Jan Harmensz. MullerDutch, 1571 - 1628
Muller's engraving style, with its swelling and tapering lines that define form without outlines, is especially well suited to rendering the dynamic sculptural form of Adriaen de Vries's monument, a fountain statue that itself animates its ancient prototypes--as if the Farnese Hercules had sprung into action.
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