Seated Hercules
Unknown
probably first quarter 16th century · Bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
In this adaptation of the Belvedere Torso, one of the ancient, fragmentary sculptures unearthed in fifteenth-century Rome, the artist has completed the figure and asserted a particularly German style through his vision of Hercules’s body proportions.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- probably first quarter 16th century
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- German, Nuremberg
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
