Artist: Giovan Francesco Rustici
Date: 1515
Size: 44 x 29 cm
Museum: The Frick Collection (New York, United States)
Technique: Bronze
Perhaps even more than Verrocchio, Pollaiuolo embodies what is thought of as the quintessential Florentine Renaissance artist. He was innovative and unsurpassed in any branch of art he chose to practice. His works seem to radiate a positive, energetic attitude, combining with a new mastery of the athletic male nude often dramatic extremes of passion.This virile bronze figure of Hercules appears tough, confident, and triumphant—a hardy progenitor of Michelangelo
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