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Hercules (Piero della Francesca)

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pose. Typical in Piero's work, this solemn, static, languid, and realistic pose has an innate sense of balance. The serious and thoughtful face looks out from the frame, whilst the throat is modeled anatomically on classical sculptures and the friezes with palmettes in the background on classical
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motifs. The clear light almost cancels out the shadows, without diminishing the volume and three-dimensionality of the body. These stylistic elements place the work close to the artist's
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as a nude with a lion-skin, standing in front of a basin, holding a club and with his left hand on his hip and his legs in an asymmetric
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It was rediscovered during the second half of the 18th century in a room of the artist's family home on via delle Aggiunte in
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scene which includes a boy leaning on a club in a similar pose to that of
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Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
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This article about a fifteenth-century painting is a
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Piero della Francesca
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Joseph Lindon Smith
Sansepolcro
Elia Volpi
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Joseph Lindon Smith
Hercules
contraposto
True Cross frescoes
ISBN
8809761677
"Catalogue entry"
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Piero della Francesca
Flagellation of Christ
History of the True Cross
Baptism of Christ
Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
Saint Julian the Hospitaller
Madonna del Parto
Resurrection
Saint Louis of Toulouse
Polyptych of the Misericordia
Hercules
Saint Augustine Altarpiece
Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza

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