Hercules, Pt 2: Atlas - Walter Crane

Hercules, Pt 2: Atlas - Walter CraneA print of Walter Crane's Hercules and Atlas one of the plates for Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (Houghton Mifflin, 1892). Hercules shoulders the weight of the heavens while the Titan Atlas walks off to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides, a brief and precarious exchange. The episode is the eleventh labour of Hercules. Atlas, condemned by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders for eternity, was the father of the

A black and white photograph of Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Adonis

A print of Walter Crane's Bellerophon Fighting the Chimera — one of the plates Crane produced for Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

the drawn bow

still flowing with blood

carried across the continent on the currents of the Grand Tour

the face that launched a thousand ships

The episode is the eleventh labour of Hercules

muralist and teacher whose work shaped Dutch decorative art around 1900

and for nearly 1

Baroque and Neoclassical art

its two stories of columns and pilasters

was closely associated with the god of music