Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds

Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds
	Italian: Ercole uccide gli uccelli di Stinfalo
Artist	Albrecht Dürer[1]
Year	1500[2]
Location	Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds is a 1500 tempera on canvas painting by Albrecht Dürer, now collectedin the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. [3]

Duerer's 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.

Bibliography

Costantino Porcu (edited by), Dürer, Rizzoli, Milan 2004.

References

Albrecht Dürer (1974). The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Durer: 1500-1509 / Walter L. Strauss. Abaris Books. ISBN 978-0-913870-00-6.
Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner (1977). The Art Quarterly. Art Studies Inc.
Lilian H. Zirpolo (25 October 2007). Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art. Scarecrow Press. pp. 199–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6424-5.

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[Dürer1974-1] Albrecht Dürer (1974). The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Durer: 1500-1509 / Walter L. Strauss. Abaris Books. ISBN 978-0-913870-00-6.

[Valentiner1977-2] Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner (1977). The Art Quarterly. Art Studies Inc.

[Zirpolo2007-3] Lilian H. Zirpolo (25 October 2007). Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art. Scarecrow Press. pp. 199–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6424-5.