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Dalmata Ring Hercules and the bull

A model of great personality: the cameo carved with such precision and rhythm amplifies every play of colour. Hercules and the Bull on the Dalmatian ring — an intaglio that tells the encounter between hero and animal. The cameo is purely neoclassical, made of very few strokes — light hints that convey all the force of the myth. Hercules leads the animal out of the city and the animal follows him, and his every gesture is clear, as is what he achieves.It is a scene where movement is everywhere — even the pause is a rhythm. This same dynamism is on the base: the white enamel and the black spots seem to chase one another, to meet, to align — just as it happens in the scene. The spotted decoration wraps the myth with a graphic contrast that amplifies the tension — in dialogue with the strength of the volumes, the torsion of the bodies, every muscle rendered by the intaglio.The Cretan Bull, driven wild by Poseidon, needs someone’s help to find his freedom. And here one perceives with extrem

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Aggiornato il 10/06/2026