- Title
- Landscape with Hercules and Cacus
- Author
- Nicolas Poussin
- Year
- 1660
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Length
- 1565 mm
- Width
- 2020 mm
- Licence
- Public Domain
Description
Poussin's landscape depicts an episode from Virgil's Aeneid: Hercules frees the Romans from Cacus. From a cave on the Aventine Hill, he is said to have terrorized the surrounding region. (Aeneid, Book VIII, 190–275)