Hercules at the Crossroads Between the Virtue and the Vice by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni 1708 – 1787 Italy Italian ( Hercules, forced to choose between Vice and Virtue, was composed in the 5th century BC . When the young Hercules (Heracles) was minding the flock of his earthly father, King Amphion, on the mountains of Cithaeron, he was approached by two women, Tenderness and Virtue. )

---

Size: 3902px × 4920px
Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., 1708, 1787, 5th, amphion, art, artist, arts, batoni, bc, beautiful, century, choose, cithaeron, civilization, crossroads, culture, earthly, father, flock, forced, gallery, girolamo, god, goddess, greek, heracles, hercules, historic, history, interesting, italian, italy, king, master, masterpiece, minding, mountains, museum, museums, myth, mythology, myths, painter, painting, paintings, picture, piece, pompeo, renaissance, roman, tenderness, vice, virtue, women, young, –