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In this adaptation of the Belvedere Torso, one of the ancient, fragmentary sculptures unearthed in fifteenth-century Rome, the artist has completed the figure and asserted a particularly German style through his vision of Hercules’s body proportions.
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Title: Seated Hercules
Date: probably first quarter 16th century
Culture: German, Nuremberg
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Height: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit Line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
Object Number: 64.101.1546
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