Hercules and Antaeus

The wild movement that springs from the insistent profiles of a dry, metallic, even exaggeratedly precise anatomy is ultimately defined in a calibrated, balletic eurhythmy, in which the opposed symmetries, the subtle geometric correspondences of the forms and, still more, of the voids dynamically "probed" by the exasperated lunges of the combatants, reveal a highly calculated meditation on ancient models, but even more a shrewd understanding of Donatello's untiring experimentation.