It portrays hercules uncertain about the choice between two sleeps. The one on the right with a transparent dress represents pleasure, and shows him the flat road between playing cards, theatrical masks and musical instruments. The dressed woman on the left instead represents virtue who shows him a tiring, narrow and uphill road, at the top of which however the winged horse pegasus awaits him, emblem of the farnese family, which will lead him to glory and to heaven. Object Type: painting. Genre: mythological painting. Date: 1596. Dimensions: height: 165 cm (64.9 in); width: 239 cm (94 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: National Museum of Capodimonte. CarracciHercules
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