03 — ARTWORK
Heracles and the Hydra
- MEDIUM
- Bronze, height 32 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
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COMMENTARY
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Algardi, the distinguished baroqueThe period in art history from about 1600 to about 1750. In this sense the term covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture there were three main forms of Baroque: (1) sumptuous display, a style associated with the Catholic Counter Reformation and the absolutist courts of Europe (Bernini, Rubens); (2) dramatic realism (Caravaggio); and (3) everyday realism, a development seen in particular in Holland (Rembrandt, Vermeer). In architecture, there was an emphasis on expressiveness and grandeur, achieved through scale, the dramatic use of light and shadow, and increasingly elaborate decoration. In a more limited sense the term Baroque often refers to the first of these categories. The development of the Baroque reflects the period's religious tensions (Catholic versus Protestant); a new and more expansive world view based on science and exploration; and the growth of absolutist monarchies. sculptor was commissioned by restoring several antiquethe classical age of Greece and Rome began with the Greek migrations of the 2nd millennium BC, and ended in the West in 476 AD with the deposition of the Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus (c. 475 AD); in the East it ended in 529 AD when the Platonic Academy was closed by Justinian (482 - 565 AD). sculptures, among them a group of Heracles and the Hydra (presently in the Museo Capitolino in Rome). Later he executed several versions of the same subject. His sculpture in the Budapest museum is one of the best of this series.
OTHER WORKS BY ALESSANDRO ALGARDI
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title = {Heracles and the Hydra by ALGARDI, Alessandro},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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