Hercules and Cacus

ca. 1700 (Baroque) H: 15 11/16 in. (39.8 cm) Citation Source image

In 1583, a marble statue group with the broken, entwined torsos of two muscular wrestlers was discovered in Rome. Sculptors tried to imagine compositions that would complete them, one being the struggle of Hercules and the evil giant Cacus, slain by Hercules after he stole the...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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