Hercules with his Club and Lion Skin
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 13 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (35.3 × 22.6 cm) Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (37.1 × 24.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2006
Accession Number
2006.325
Tags
About the Artist
Baccio Bandinelli|Anonymous, 16th century · 1493–1560
Bandinelli was the son of Michelangelo de'Brandini, a successful Florentine goldsmith. Baccio was a loyal subject of the Medici, even when they were in exile 1494-1513; consequently he was rewarded by receiving commissions after the elections to the papacy of Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici) and Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici), and after Cosimo de' Medici became Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1537. His polit...