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The Hercules mask of Ca' Soranzo

The two Soranzo houses on Campo San Polo: set into the cornice of the polyphora on the second floor of the older house is the roundel with Hercules and the Nemean lion
The two Soranzo houses on Campo San Polo: set into the cornice of the polyphora on the second floor of the older house is the roundel with Hercules and the Nemean lion Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The two Soranzo houses spread a long, gently curving façade onto the campo, full of marbles, capitals and coloured roundels. Look for the dentilled cornice that bands the polyphora of the second floor of the older palazzo — numbers 2170-2171: set into it is a seventy-centimetre disc of Greek marble with Hercules wrestling bare-handed with the Nemean lion.

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