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 …

The Farnese Hercules shows to excellent advantage the virtuosic technique that Goltzius had developed, in which the swelling and tapering line pioneered by Cornelis Cort is exaggerated to the …

This fine example of Roman sculpture shows the Greek hero – he is sometimes known by his Greek name, as the Farnese Herakles – leaning on his customary wooden club, here cushioned by a lionskin.

The Farnese Hercules is a Roman marble statue depicting the mythological hero Hercules (Heracles in Greek mythology). The statue was signed by an unknown artist called Glykon. The name sounds …

The Florentine reproduction of Hercules dates back to the middle of the 2nd century A.D. and was probably copied from a bronze original from late 4th century B.C., attributed to Lysippus of Sicyon, …

Lysippos, Farnese Hercules, 4th century B.C.E. (later Roman copy by Glycon) (Archaeological Museum, Naples) Weary from his labors, Hercules leans on his club, with hints of his heroic trials hidden in …

Feb 13, 1994 · This virtuosic engraving depicts the famous Farnese Hercules, a colossal ancient statue unearthed in Rome in the mid-sixteenth century and displayed there in the Farnese Palace.

With the Farnese Hercules type, the sculptor placed the hero’s body in three-dimensional space. To see the statue in its entirety and understand its story, the viewer must walk around it, particularly to …

The Farnese Hercules, excavated in 1546 and installed in the Palazzo Farnese, profoundly shaped Renaissance artistic practices through its embodiment of classical musculature and contrapposto pose.

Made for the massive Baths of Caracalla, he is one of the few pieces in the gallery to be signed by the artist: the Greek letters on the base tell us that the Athenian sculptor Glykon made him — …