No holds barred, old-school style

Is that legal?

This image has been languishing on my desktop for ages. I may have even posted it already, though I doubt it. Took this picture in Florence last year.* It's a marble sculpture of Heracles wrestling Antaeus by Vincenzo de Rossi. Hercules took the eye gouge out of play with the inverted hold but he left himself open to attack in the groin area. Another picture here.

The sculpture is actually really impressive in person, as most sculptures tend to be.  In Florence it doesn't get much notice, since there are literally more amazing marble sculptures than you could ever keep track of, never mind see and appreciate.



* Actually made The Girl take it on her blackberry because I didn't have my camera.