This is Heracles. He is a mural on the ceiling Heracles likes fighting, Hebe, and more fighting. To see him you have to throw your head back and hope you have good balance or for you non-germaphobic people you can lay of floor and look stare at it :3 The museum also has mirrors that you can look in.
There are more paintings but this one is my favorite. I like this one because it’s just the most pleasing to look at in my opinion. The story of Heracles in its shortest form is Zeus+girl=Heracles. Hera got mad sent two snakes to kill Heracles, but both died. He did 12 things and then died. He got Hebe as a wife. The hydra was the third or fourth task. If you cut off one of the hydras heads, 2 grow back. So he ended up burning the neck stubs to keep them from growing back. 🙂
The Facts:
- Hercules and The Hydra
- John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)
- 1922-25
- Material: Oil on canvas
- Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund (25.647)
- Gallery 204B (Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Colonnade) Look up! 🙂
Museums with Mina 