The resting Herakles (Hercules) Farnese

Ο Αναπαυόμενος Ηρακλής

Hellenistische Kunst : Herakles Farnese

Heracles of the Farnese type, 3rd century BC or Imperial Era Roman copy from an original by Lysippos. Bronze statuette found in Foligno, Italy.
Dimensions H. 42.5 cm (16 ½ in.) Credit line Tyszkiewicz Collection, 1870

Accession number Br 652

Location Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully wing, Bronzes Hall

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First Labor of Hercules
Sjogren, Jody F.
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Hercules Farnese Studies, Variations

Probably the Hercules of the Telephos Frieze, from the Pergamon Zeus temple, is a work that is based on the resting Hercules of Lysippos. (Berlin Germany Inv. No. T.I.17 Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz). Right a part of a lioness and the infant Telephos .(Usually the infant Telephus is suckled by a deer but a lion was selected an animal stronger than the wolve of Remus and Romulus, a provocation for the Romans)

Many authors considered the proportions of the Hercules Farnese:

(Image of the Building with Hercules on top

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