Antonio del Pollaiuolo's image of ten naked men battling is an icon of Italian Renaissance printmaking, and the Yale University Art Gallery's impression is one of the best in America. It has been suggested that the composition illustrates an episode from Roman history or that it commemorates the death of a notable contemporary Florentine, but no explanation has found general acceptance. Whatever the iconographic content, the energetically gesturing figures are typical of the artist, as can be seen by a comparison of the engraving with the Gallery's painting by Pollaiuolo, Hercules and Deianira (1871.42); the archer at upper left in the print could almost be Hercules in the painting, turned to be seen from the front.