Ercole e il Centauro Nesso Ercole e il Centauro Nesso / / gallery 
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A featured sculpture of the outdoor Loggia della Signoria is Giambologna's "Hercules beating the Centaur Nessus" from the Greek Hercules legend, sculpted from a solid block of white marble in 1599 and placed in the Loggia in 1841. Hercules killed Nessus, whose tainted blood in turn eventually killed Hercules.
LOCATION: Florence
DATE: Thu, 01/06/2006
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