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Hercules at the Crossroad

Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice

mythological

The picture shows the front of a birth tray. (A tray was given on the occasion of weddings or birth.) On the back of the tray appear the coats-of-arms of the families united in wedlock.

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Hercules at the Crossroad

About the Artist

Girolamo Di Benvenuto

1470 – 1524

Italian painter, pupil and longtime collaborator of his father, Benvenuto di Giovanni. He asserted himself as an independent painter on 1498, completing the Assumption now on display in the museum at Montalcino. His secular work is particularly important, especially his birth trays (Hercules at the Crossroad, Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice).

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