BRANDINI, "ERCOLE E CACO"

Speranza

It was agreed that a second model should be adopted for the statuary group, and a full-scale CLAY model was prepared.

The group was completed in 1534, and is signed on the base:

BACCIVS BANDINELL. FLOR FACIEBAT. MDXXXIII.

It was installed on its base in the Piazza della Signoria on May 1, 1534.

BRANDINI, seeing the group in the open air, considered that the muscles appeared 'TROPPO DOLCI", and after re-erecting screens round the group resumed work on it, and 'AFFONDANDO IN PIÙ LUOGHI I MUSCOLI, RIDUSSE LE FIGURE PIÙ CRUDE CHE PRIMA NON ERANO".