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Jan Gossart (again) - This time his 1517 "Hercules and Deianira," from the Barber Institute in England and on show in the Met's Gossart survey.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Gossart (again) and mannerism Blake Gopnik 2010
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Gossart does not always conquer that older sense of alienation and awkwardness in his often life-size depictions of Adam and Eve and of Hercules and Deianira: There is an oddly improvised quality to these depictions of the human form, as though the artist were painting from memory or from theory, rather than from observing actual humans.
Gossart James Gardner 2010
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Cavalli depicts the myth of Hercules, Deianira and Iole as an allegorical spectacle, including divine manifestations and allusions to Louis XIV, who commissioned the piece.
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Hercules, after he had freed the life of man from many things that were pernicious to it, perished by the witchcraft and poison of Deianira.
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Seeing his perplexity, Nessus, one of the Centaurs, offered to take Deianira on his back and carry her over the stream.
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The servant of Deianira who had carried him the fatal shirt, and who wished to solace him in his pain, he seized as she approached him and flung headlong into the sea, where she was changed into a rock that long, so runs the legend, kept its human form.
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How else could we endure to contemplate the failure and destruction of a Lear, a Wallenstein, a Deianira, an Antigone?
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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Having married Deianira, the daughter of a powerful King of Calydon, in Greece, Hercules was traveling home with her when he came to the banks of a river and was at a loss how to cross it.
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Deianira than he made off with her, intending to have her as his own wife.
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But, before dying, Nessus had time to tell Deianira that if she wanted to keep Hercules always true to her she had but to take his shirt, and, when her husband's love was waning, prevail on him to wear it.
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