Sculpture of Hercules and Cacus by Baccio Bandinelli at the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. Baccio Ban
Sculpture of Hercules and Cacus by Baccio Bandinelli at the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. Baccio Bandinelli admired and competed with the older Michelangelo all his life but never escaped the great man's shadow. When the Republican government of Florence decided to order Hercules and Cacus as a companion piece for David at the entrance to the Palazzo della Signoria, they originally gave the commission to Michelangelo. A decade later, after a change of government, the marble ended up in Bandinelli's hands. This, then, is the story of what he sculpted.
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