AnticoItalia, 1460–1528Hercules and the Nemean Lion
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This relief in bronze of Hercules and the Nemean Lion is made by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolso, called Antico, in the late 15th or early 16th century. It has though recently been suggested that is might be a fake (together with A.2-1959), executed by Salomon Weininger.
The relief corresponds with a relief in the Museo Nazionale, Florence, from which it differs in the absence of gilding on the cloak, tree and other areas and in the chasing of the tree trunk and the interior of the lion's mouth.
The legend of Hercules and the Nemean Lion reflects Hercules’ first labour set to him by Eurystheus, where he had to bring the skin of an unvulnerable lion, which terrorised the hills around the city of Nemea.
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- A.1-1959
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