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TitleAllegory of Virtue and Vice (The Choice of Hercules) SubjectAllegory – Virtue Allegory – Vice DescriptionAt a crossroads, Hercules encountered Vice, who offered a path of ease and pleasure, and Virtue, who indicated a rugged ascent leading to true happiness a moral lesson underlined by the motto on the entablature at upper left: [HO]NOR ET VIRTUS/[P]OST MORTE FLORET (Honor and Virtue Flourish after Death). The long talons of Vice have ripped the hero’s stocking. A jagged knife leans against the breast of the sphinx...

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Richmond Barthé American, 1901-1989 The Boxer, 1942 Bronze 47.6 cm (18 3/4 in.) 18 in. (figure); 3/4 in. (base) Simeon B. Williams Fund, 1948.79 American Art Not on Display   http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111442 Website: Art Institute of...

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Painter Painting ©Bernard Gamoy Date made: 2005 Materials: oil on linen Measurements: 155 x 320...

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Barbara Kruger Untitled (We don’t need another hero) 90″ by 117″ photographic silkscreen/vinyl 1987 http://www.maryboonegallery.com/artist_info/pages/kruger/detail2.html

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