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Hercules Francesco Segala (after)

Artist

Francesco Segala (after) Padua 1559 – 1592 Padua

Culture Italian
Date second half of the 16th century
Object type sculpture
Medium, technique bronze with black lacquer patina
Dimensions

63 × 24 × 16 cm, 18.5 kg

Inventory number 4894
Collection Sculptures
On view Museum of Fine Arts, Ground Floor, Baroque Hall

Several copies have survived of the statue of Hercules leaning on his club, holding the skin of a Nemean lion. In terms of the position of Hercules’s head and his spiked bludgeon, the most similar copy to the one in Budapest is the piece embellishing an andiron exhibited at Hampton Court Palace in London. This bronze composition is attributed to the Paduan sculptor Francesco Segala; his statue of Saint John the Baptist (1565) in the baptismal font of Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice is similar in style. The model for the small bronzes was the ancient marble found in the middle of the sixteenth century was the so-called Farnese Hercules.

References

Petrovics, Elek – Meller, Simon, Ferenczy István bronzgyűjteményének kiállítása, Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1917, p. 16.

Pope-Henessy, John, “Italian sculpture – Budapest and Paris”, Apollo 102.161-166 (1975), p. 474-475.

Balogh, Jolán, Katalog der ausländischen Bildwerke des Museums der bildenden Künste in Budapest, IV – XVIII. Jahrhundert: 1. Textband Bd. 1, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1975, p. 124., no. 152.

Dal Poggetto, Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré, “Recensione – Jolán Balogh, Katalog der ausländischen Bildwerke der Museums der bildenden Künste in Budapest. IV-XVIII Jahrhundert Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1975 Vols. 2: I, Textband; II, Bildband.”, Prospettiva 8-11 (1977), p. 63-67.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.

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