The present lot is from Vik Muniz’s series, Pictures of Junk. In his great Rococo painting, Lemoyne depicts the complicated relationship between Hercules and Omphale, Queen of Lydia. Under her power, ...

(CNN) — After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured by glass and coated in debris during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, the monumental oil-on-canvas, painstakingly restored ...

53 x 75 cm. (20.9 x 29.5 in.) Collection Augusto Lurati, Milan, until 1928. – Galleria Pesaro, Mailand, La Raccolta Augusto Lurati, 8–21 April 1928, colour plate LIV (as Lucas Cranach). – Collection ...

The previously unknown work was salvaged by a Lebanese artist and art historian, who first made the case for the painting’s authenticity. Artemisia Gentileschi, "Hercules and Omphale" (1630) (all ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 67 (Sale info: For Sale). "This subject so often handled by the great masters, is here managed with delicacy; the beauty of the female form is finely ...

If not for the explosion, “Hercules and Omphale” may have continued to be an unidentified work, only considered a Gentileschi painting by a Lebanese art historian who had seen it decades earlier. In ...