# Cain killing Abel

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VRIES, Adriaen de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Bronze, height 70 cm

## Commentary

This work can be viewed equally well from all sides because the figures are twisting - or serpentining - around their own axes. Such serpentinata is a typical feature of Mannerism, a courtly style that de Vries appropriated while studying under the sculptor Giambologna in Florence as a young man.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of the Turkish War in Hungary](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/allegory-of-the-turkish-war-in-hungary-r6ab1c7cb87c31a>)
- [Apollo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/apollo-r42bd27ff008251>)
- [Apollo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/apollo-r9146a2b0f3dc8e>)
- [Bacchus Discovering Ariadne on Naxos](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/bacchus-discovering-ariadne-on-naxos-r9b3118564d494a>)
- [Bust of Emperor Rudolf II](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/bust-of-emperor-rudolf-ii-re4e573c3fc8100>)
- [Bust of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/bust-of-holy-roman-emperor-rudolf-ii-r43b91c31aaabc9>)
- [Bust of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/bust-of-holy-roman-emperor-rudolf-ii-r93d6593fdcbb49>)
- [Christ at the Column.](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/christ-at-the-column-rd8e3b850852505>)
- [Gladiator](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/gladiator-r3b530b914faf8e>)
- [Hercules and the Centaur Fighting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/hercules-and-the-centaur-fighting-r969a4d5c00bbaf>)
- [Hercules Fountain \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/hercules-fountain-detail-r87ae4bdb638afd>)
- [Hercules Fountain \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-adriaen-de-r3d7f277476b1c7/hercules-fountain-detail-rd0d64d854f26ed>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)