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Modena
Modena (prov.)
Emilia-Romagna

Corso Accademia Militare 15
(Palazzo Ducale)

Ercole e Marco Emilio Lepido

Hercules and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

Description

Two marble statues flanking the entrance of the Ducal Palace, Hercules with a three-headed dog en the Roman statesman Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

Modena - Ercole e Marco Emilio Lepido
Ercole / Hercules
(Ἡρακλῆς), Latin: Hercules, divine hero in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Alcmene (Wikipedia).
Marco Emilio Lepido / Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
(Rome c. 90 BC - San Felice Cicero 13 BC)
Roman patrician who was triumvir with Octavian (the future Augustus) and Mark Antony, and the last Pontifex Maximus of the Roman Republic
(Wikipedia).

Signature

(on Lepidus' belt) proper clemen. regien.

Sculptor

Prospero Sogari (also Prospero Spani), known as 'il Clemente' (Reggio nell'Emilia 1516 - Reggio nell'Emilia 1584), Italian sculptor and architect, grandson of Bartolomeo di Clementi Spani (Dizionario Biografico – Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

La Guida di Modena, Palazzo Ducale.
Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale 'Enrico Fermi', Ercole ed Emilio Lepido.

Locatie (N 44°38'53" - E 10°55'44") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: iter156; Photograph: 14 May 2017
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