Cover illustrations: (central image) Bartholomeus Spranger, Hercules and Omphale (Iole), ca. 1585. Oil on copper, 24 × 19 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, no. GG 1126. Wikimedia commons; (background image) Spranger (inv.) – Egidius Sadeler II (engr.), Hercules and Iole/Omphale, ca. 1600. Etching and engraving, 44 × 31.8 cm. (Hollstein vol. 21, 30, no. 106). Public domain.
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Names: Enenkel, K. A. E., author.
Title: Theatre of sexual attraction and psychological destruction : the myth of Hercules and Omphale in the visual arts, 1500-1800 / by Karl A.E. Enenkel.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025 | Series: Intersections, 1568-1181 ; volume 91 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024033599 (print) | LCCN 2024033600 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004694644 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004694651 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Heracles (Greek mythological character)–Art. |
Omphale (Greek mythological character)–Art. | Iole (Greek mythological character)–Art. | Emotions in art. | Man-woman relationships in art. | Art, European–Themes, motives.
Classification: LCC N7763.H47 E54 2025 (print) | LCC N7763.H47 (ebook) | DDC 704.9/47–dc23/eng/20240821
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024033599
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024033600
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ISSN 1568-1181
ISBN 978-90-04-69464-4 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-69465-1 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004694651
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