POLLAIUOLO, Antonio del
(b. 1431/32, Firenze, d. 1498, Roma)

Hercules

1470s
Bronze, height 44 cm
Frick Collection, New York

The surface of the bronze is unfinished. Small precious table bronzes such as this figure were regarded as collectors' items from the last decades of the fifteenth century, as a representation of the owner's fascination with, and knowledge of, antiquity.