Allegory of Hercules
Painting by Dosso Dossi
Allegory of Hercules is a c. 1535 oil on canvas painting by Dosso Dossi, now in the Uffizi in Florence. Its subject is uncertain and its sometimes almost known as Bambocciata or Stregoneria.[1]
It was acquired in Siena by Giannotto Cennini for cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, who received it in 1665. His inventory called it a "painting with portraits of the jesters of the dukes of Ferrara", a satirical caricature subject which can only have originated as a direct commission from Ercole II d'Este, himself named after Hercules, hence the painting's name.[2]
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Dosso Dossi
- Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape (c. 1525)
- Portrait of a Woman (1530–1535)
- Virgin of the Assumption and St. Michael the Archangel (c. 1533–1534)
- Allegory of Hercules (c. 1535)
- Allegory of Music (1530s)
- School of Ferrara
- Battista Dossi
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