The Farnese Hercules sculpture in marble. Roman hero Hercules (Greek Heracles) leaning on his club draped with the Nemean lionskin, golden apples behind his back, fig leaf over his genitals. In the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Copperplate engraving by Richard Collin after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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