Hercules Farnese Statue of Hercules, known as the Farnese Hercules. Hercules, muscular and heavy: built, stands naked in an alcove and leaning on his club. The lion skin hanging over the club. The statue was in the third century AD marble hewn from an antique sculpture Glycon and is currently in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Previously it was in Palazzo Farnese, where it got its name. On a boulder beside Hercules few words in Greek. The print has a Latin onderschrift. Manufacturer : printmaker Jacob Bos (listed building) editor: Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi (listed building) publi
Hercules Farnese Statue of Hercules, known as the Farnese Hercules. Hercules, muscular and heavy: built, stands naked in an alcove and leaning on his club. The lion skin hanging over the club. The statue was in the third century AD marble hewn from an antique sculpture Glycon and is currently in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Previously it was in Palazzo Farnese, where it got its name. On a boulder beside Hercules few words in Greek. The print has a Latin onderschrift. Manufacturer : printmaker Jacob Bos (listed building) editor: Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi (listed building) publisher: Antonio Lafreri (listed property) Place manufacture: Rome Date: 1562 Physical features: car material: paper technique: engra (printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 449 mm × W 304 mm Subject: piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture (the story of) Hercules (Herakles) Where Museo Nazionale
Size: 1328px × 1882px
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