Hercules and the Centaur Nessus
Hercules and the Centaur Nessus is a marble statue by the sculptor Giambologna, placed in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence (Tuscany, Italy). Giambologna is the name of Italianized Jean Boulogne (Douai 1529-Florence 1608), sculptor came from Flanders to Rome in 1550. He was profoundly Italian in spirit and education and was able to accept the lesson of Michelangelo, and find the extent of Mannerism. The sculpture is characterized by great strength plastic expressed by the powerful torsion, almost elastic, of the body of the centaur Nessus, folded on the strength of Hercules.
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