Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra as an allegory of Courage. Ceiling painting by Italian Mannerist painters Giorgio Vasari and Marco Marchetti da Faenza (1556-1558) in the Room of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Sala di Lorenzo il Magnifico) in the Apartments of Pope Leo X (Quartiere di Leone X) in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

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