![]() Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Hercules and the Discovery of the Secret of Purple (detail) (c 1636), oil on panel, 28 × 34 cm, Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne, France. The dog-owner was Heracles (Hercules), the great hero of Greek and Roman myth. Wikimedia Commons.Īccording to Julius Pollux, writing in his Onomasticon in the second century CE, that is how the brilliant purple dye Tyrian purple was discovered. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Hercules and the Discovery of the Secret of Purple (c 1636), oil on panel, 28 × 34 cm, Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne, France. The dog’s owner looks carefully at the animal’s mouth, fearful that it is cut and bleeding, until he sees the colour, and it is obvious that the dog is unhurt. The dog is sniffing around the shells and other debris that have been washed up with the waves, and starts to eat one of the shells, as dogs do. ![]() ![]() A man, middle-aged, well-muscled, and wearing a lionskin, is walking his dog on a Mediterranean beach.
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