The Death of Hercules

The Death of Hercules (Spanish: La muerte de Hércules, alternatively known as Hercules Seared by the Poisoned Robe) is a 1634 painting by Francisco de Zurbarán, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It belonged to a series of ten paintings on the life of Hercules for the Hall of Realms at the Palacio del Buen Retiro.

The painting is an oil on canvas and measures 53.5 by 65.75 inches (135.9 by 167.0 cm). It depicts Hercules burning as he tries to remove the poisoned Shirt of Nessus, while the centaur Nessus himself dies from Hercules's arrow in the background. The choice of the Herculean theme, as well as Zurbarán's decision to depict Hercules as burning without the funeral pyre normally present in the myth, fitted the royal ideology of Philip IV, who claimed to be a descendant of Hercules.

The painting's sources include a 1521 woodcut by the French artist Gabriel Salmon and a 1542 engravin…

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