Hercules
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 17
- Inventory
- PV 10779
- Material and technique
- Bronze, natural brown patina, black lacquer
- Author
- Manner of Stefano Maderno
- Dating
- Early 17th century
- Dimensions
- 31 X 17.5 X 14 cm.
- Origin
- Auriti Collection (1963); formerly Otto von Henkell Collection, Wiesbaden
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
Santangelo believed that this bronze was different to the version previously held in the Henkell Collection in Viesbaden, but the identical defects on the legs where errors occurred during founding indicate that they are, in fact, the same work.
Some anatomical features of Hercules, especially his musculature and twisting body, are reminiscent of Stefano Maderno’s bronzes and terracottas held at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti, housed in the Ca’ d’Oro in Venice.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Planiscig, Piccoli bronzi italiani del Rinascimento, Milan 1930, p. 29; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 16.
