• Carving for a Future: Baccio Bandinelli Securing Medici Patronage Through His Mutually Fulfilling and Propagandistic Hercules and Cacus.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Name: Hercules & Cacus. Date: 1534. Artist: Bartolommeo Bandinelli. ... In a rage Hercules, found Cacus and beheaded him as punishment of his deeds.
  • The artistic representation of this story in the Hercules and Cacus sculpture by Baccio Bandinelli showcases the artist’s admiration and rivalry with Michelangelo.
  • Sculptors tried to imagine compositions that would complete them, one being the struggle of Hercules and the evil giant Cacus, slain by Hercules after he stole the...
  • Hercules and Cacus. Bartolommeo Bandinellic. ... Bandinelli’s treatment of Hercules’ victory over the hulking monster Cacus is marked by a truly baroque pathos.
  • Goltzius was commissioned by a Haarlem lawyer named Colterman to paint ‘Hercules and Cacus’. He also purchased ‘Minerva’ and ‘Mercury’, which Goltzius had...