Hercules and Cacus at the Piazza della Signoria

David and Hercules at the Palazzo Vecchio. Piazza della Signoria - Florence, Italy.

Probably, no block of marble had a more tortuous journey from quarry to piazza than Baccio Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus. A sculpture with 2 stories to tell – one is a Herculean myth. The other is its entanglement within the momentous upheavals in Florence’s transformation from a republican to a monarchical state. 

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