Plate 83: Nessus Attempting to Take Dejanera from Hercules (Neßus Dianiram rapiens telo ab Hercule configitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Nessos abducting Deianira

Willem Panneels, After Peter Paul Rubens

Nessus attempting to take Dejanira from Hercules, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Antonio Tempesta

Plate 115: The Rape of Caenis (Caenis in virginitatis amißae solatium in virum fortiß.m a Neptuno transformatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Antonio Tempesta

The World Disposing of Justice, from The Unrestrained World, plate 1

Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, After Maarten van Heemskerck

Plate 136: Circe Changing Picus into a Bird (Circes concubitum detestatur Picus), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Antonio Tempesta

Hercules and the Mares of Diomedes: Hercules grasps the bridle of a rearing horse, a second horse tramples a figure in at right, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Antonio Tempesta

Hercules and the Hind of Mount Cerynea, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Antonio Tempesta

St George Killing the Dragon

Engraved by Enea Vico, After Giulio Clovio, Published by Antonio Salamanca

Hercules and Deianira, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Etched by Stefano della Bella, Designed by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Henri Le Gras, Louis XIV, King of France, Cardinal Jules Mazarin

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Shooting Nessus

Hans Sebald Beham

Hercules Killing Nessus, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Sebald Beham

The abduction of Dejanira held by the centaur Nessus

Battista Franco