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The Farnese Hercules
Lysippos (fl.mid/late 4th century BCE) - Farnese Hercules (also Weary Hercules), 4th century B.C.E., later Roman copy signed "Glykon of Athens" (in Greek letters), c. 216 C.E., marble, 3.17 m (10 feet 5 inches) high, found in the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1546, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
One of the great Classical works of Ancient Greece by the greatest Corinth-born sculptor Lysippos, said to have created 1,500 works all in bronze.
~Ancient Greece~
Lysippos (fl.mid/late 4th century BCE) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period.
The Farnese Hercules is a massive marble statue, following a lost original that was cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting. It depicts a muscular, yet weary, Hercules leaning on his club, which has the skin of the Nemean lion draped over it. In myths about Heracles, killing the lion was his first task. He has just performed one of the last of The Twelve Labours, which is suggested by the apples of the Hesperides he holds behind his back.
The type was well known in antiquity, and among many other versions a Hellenistic or Roman bronze reduction, found at Foligno is in the Musée du Louvre. A small Roman marble copy can be seen over the Museum of the Ancient Agora, Athens.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnese_Hercules#List_of_other_an...
Lysippos fost un sculptor grec din secolul al IV-lea î.Hr. Împreună cu Scopas și Praxiteles, este considerat unul dintre cei mai mari trei sculptori ai epocii clasice grecești, aducând schimbarea către arta perioadei elenistice. Problemele apar cu studierea lui Lysippos din cauza dificultății de a identifica stilul său printre copiile supraviețuitoare. Nu numai că a avut un atelier mare și mulți discipoli în cercul său imediat, dar a existat o întreagă piață a replicilor operei sale, furnizate din afara cercului său, atât în timpul vieții sale, cât și mai târziu în perioadele elenistică și romană. Tânărul victorios sau Atletul din Fano, redescoperit în 1972, a fost asociat cu el.
The Farnese Hercules
Lysippos (fl.mid/late 4th century BCE) - Farnese Hercules (also Weary Hercules), 4th century B.C.E., later Roman copy signed "Glykon of Athens" (in Greek letters), c. 216 C.E., marble, 3.17 m (10 feet 5 inches) high, found in the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1546, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
One of the great Classical works of Ancient Greece by the greatest Corinth-born sculptor Lysippos, said to have created 1,500 works all in bronze.
~Ancient Greece~
Lysippos (fl.mid/late 4th century BCE) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period.
The Farnese Hercules is a massive marble statue, following a lost original that was cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting. It depicts a muscular, yet weary, Hercules leaning on his club, which has the skin of the Nemean lion draped over it. In myths about Heracles, killing the lion was his first task. He has just performed one of the last of The Twelve Labours, which is suggested by the apples of the Hesperides he holds behind his back.
The type was well known in antiquity, and among many other versions a Hellenistic or Roman bronze reduction, found at Foligno is in the Musée du Louvre. A small Roman marble copy can be seen over the Museum of the Ancient Agora, Athens.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnese_Hercules#List_of_other_an...
Lysippos fost un sculptor grec din secolul al IV-lea î.Hr. Împreună cu Scopas și Praxiteles, este considerat unul dintre cei mai mari trei sculptori ai epocii clasice grecești, aducând schimbarea către arta perioadei elenistice. Problemele apar cu studierea lui Lysippos din cauza dificultății de a identifica stilul său printre copiile supraviețuitoare. Nu numai că a avut un atelier mare și mulți discipoli în cercul său imediat, dar a existat o întreagă piață a replicilor operei sale, furnizate din afara cercului său, atât în timpul vieții sale, cât și mai târziu în perioadele elenistică și romană. Tânărul victorios sau Atletul din Fano, redescoperit în 1972, a fost asociat cu el.