Editing Hero and Leander (section)

===In painting===
*[[Peter Paul Rubens]] painted a picture named "Hero and Leander" in [[1604]] based on the tale.
*[[William Etty]] painted "Hero, Having Thrown herself from the Tower at the Sight of Leander Drowned, Dies on his Body" in 1829. He later said he considered the painting the "finest of my fine pictures".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/etty-hero-having-thrown-herself-from-the-tower-at-the-sight-of-leander-drowned-dies-on-his-t12265|title= Hero, Having Thrown herself from the Tower at the Sight of Leander Drowned, Dies on his Body}}</ref>
*[[Cy Twombly]] completed a painting in Rome in 1985 inspired by the story as told by [[Christopher Marlowe]]. The painting is entitled ''Hero and Leander (To Christopher Marlowe)''.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/hero-and-leander-to-christopher-marlowe-rome|title= Hero and Leander (To Christopher Marlowe) [Rome], 1985 - Cy Twombly - WikiArt.org |website= www.wikiart.org}}</ref><ref>Swensen, Cole. "Cy Twombly, Hero & Leandro 1981–84". In: ''Noise That Stays Noise: Essays''. University of Michigan Press, 2011. pp. 140–143. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.1903627.24.</ref>
*[[Evelyn De Morgan]] painted "Hero Holding the Beacon for Leander" in [[1885]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evelyn_de_Morgan_-_Hero_Holding_the_Beacon_for_Leander,_1885.jpg|title= Leander Holding the Beacon for Leander}}</ref>