Hercules at the crossroads; representing the choice between different ways of life. Engraving by A. Scultori (Ghisi) after Giulio Romano.

  • Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546.
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1500-1599
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11699i
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Hercules at the crossroads; representing the choice between different ways of life. Engraving by A. Scultori (Ghisi) after Giulio Romano. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Italy]

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 17.9 x 28 cm

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Deliberatio omnium difficillima. The lettering is a phrase in Cicero, De officiiis I.117: "In primis autem constituendum est, quos nos et quales esse velimus et in quo genere vitae, quae deliberatio est omnium difficillima" (In the first place we have to decide who and what sort of people we wish to be, in in what kind of life, which is the most difficult deliberation of all)

References note

A. Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, p. 425, Adam Ghisi no. 26
Stefania Massari, Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit, Roma: Palombi, 1993, no. 130, p. 128

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Wellcome Collection 11699i

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