Friday, October 31, 2025

Vincenzo de Rossi, Hercules and Diomedes (1560)
 
This statue, currently in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici as one of twelve (of which seven were completed) showing the Labours of Hercules.

Diomedes is obviously losing, because he's trying to pull Hercules's dick off. (Either that or he's trying to make peace by giving him a hand-job.)

And the demigod's tool looks unhappily small - and maybe not altogether intact!
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