Michelangelo’s David was completed in 1504 and placed in the Palazzo della Signoria square in Florence, Italy. However, when the Medici family returned to power in 1512 and again in 1530, they commissioned Baccio Bandinelli to sculpt from Carrara marble this statue of Hercules after killing the giant Vulcan Cacus. It clearly symbolized the House of Medici victory and still stands in the Piazza della Signoria. Medici were a royal family in the late 14th and 15th century that rose to power in Florence and later produced four Catholic Popes.
