Large Size Marble Hercules And The Centaur Nessus Statue

Hercules and the Centaur Nessus statue is a marble sculpture created by the late Renaissance sculptor Giambologna in 1599. It is now placed in the Mercenary Loggia in the Piazza Della Signoria in Florence. The scene depicted in the work is a fight between the great hero Hercules and the centaur Nessus in Greek mythology.

Hercules completely had the upper hand. The fingers of her left hand tugged at Nessus’ hair and pressed Nessus’ head down severely as if pressing his body to the edge of the truncated waist, and then exerted more force. Soth would lose his life: holding a weapon similar to a mace in his right hand, he seemed to be preparing for an attack, but only at the moment when the duel was purely physical strength, the onlookers knew who the winner was. Through this ingenious design, the image of the hero of Hercules instantly becomes stalwart, highlighting the strength of the human body and a kind of momentum of the person.

Observing several details of this sculpture, we can see that the author has a very detailed observation of the emotions of people and the movements of people and animals, and they are well-prepared in the work. The attractive details are the veins on the two characters. Strong muscles, bones, and the sturdy beauty of the muscle lines formed by them are very common in ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, but here the blue veins are depicted on the arms of the two figures and the part of the body of Nesos’s horse, but they are generally normal. The part of the sculpture that is rarely noticed.

This sculpture inherits the mantle of ancient Greek and Roman mythology in content and has a change in consciousness during the Renaissance that advocated individual liberation and opposed medieval asceticism and religious views, which is reflected in the vivid and true details and the author’s creative style. In the element oriented by subjective psychological experience.