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  • Uploaded by: Photo of petedrob petedrob
    In album: Italy 2007
    In Webshots channel: family
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  • Date uploaded: Wed Apr 25 00:58:10 PDT 2007

Hercules and Cacus. This work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) was commissioned as a counterpart for the other statues David, Fountain of Neptune and Judith and Holofernes. These had been commissioned by the republican counsel of Florence to commemorate the victory over the Medici. The large group Hercules and Cacus (height : 5.05 m) was meant to be the retort of the Medici to the republican David, to celebrate their return to power. But for once the Medici were outclassed by Michelangelo's David. The mythologican Hercules had killed the fire-breathing monster Cacus during his tenth labor. Hercules had become the symbol of strength and integrity, a symbol used by the Medici.

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