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- Carving for a Future: Baccio Bandinelli Securing Medici Patronage Through His Mutually Fulfilling and Propagandistic Hercules and Cacus.
- The artistic representation of this story in the Hercules and Cacus sculpture by Baccio Bandinelli showcases the artist’s admiration and rivalry with Michelangelo.
- Probably, no block of marble had a more tortuous journey from quarry to piazza than Baccio Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus.
- Hercules and Cacus shows the ideal bodies of the two, representing their strength and power for the overcoming of the Medicis.
- Top: Detail of Hercules' face in Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus (1525-34) Bottom: Detail of Bandinelli's Self-portrait (1555-7).
- In this article, you will learn some of the most interesting facts about Hercules and Cacus by Baccio Bandinelli, a sculpture with more than one remarkable story to tell.
- Although much of his work wasn’t as recognized as the work of his competitors, his sculptor of Hercules and Cacus is one that has grown to a great popularity.
- In this article we will explore the topic of Hercules and Cacus in depth, analyzing its different facets and its relevance today.
- The genesis of Hercules and Cacus dates to 1508 when a marble block was ordered for Michelangelo to carve as a counterpart to the David.
- What is the story of Hercules and Cacus? Another version of the myth states that Cacus made the cattle walk backwards so they left a false trail.
