Tags: Artwork.
The Choice of Hercules is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from 1596 it is housed in the Capodimonte Gallery of Naples. The subject is the Choice of Hercules.Carracci who was in Rome from the late 1595 or early 1596 was commissioned this work by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the ceiling of his camerino in his family’s palace. In 1662 it was moved to the Farnese ducal seat in Parma.
