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Original woodcut, monogrammed in the plate at the bottom centre, watermark not visible, late edition probably from the 16th century. seventeenth mm. 390 x 283, stain in the lower right margin.
Specialist Notes
The Molioni twins, so called because they were sons of Attore and Molione (the mother), were born from a silver egg and surpassed all their peers in terms of their strength. From birth they showed a great unity, contrary to the Dioscuri. Initially Pamosfsky identified this work as a fight between Hercules and Cacus, only in 1971 was the identification of the two characters on the ground precisely in the Molionide twins definitively demonstrated (Mecenzeva 1971, pp. 5-7). c