Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds

Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds is a 1500 tempera on canvas painting by Albrecht Dürer, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. His only painting of a mythological subject, it was probably commissioned for Frederick the Wise for a room in the Schloss Wittenberg containing other depictions of the Labours of Hercules.

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