The Farnese Hercules is an ancient statue of Hercules made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; he was an Athenian but he may have worked in Rome. Like many ot
Herakles Farnese MAN Napoli Inv 6001 n 01
Herakles Farnese MAN Napoli Inv 6001 n 06
Left arm leaning on the club
The Farnese Bull, formerly in the Farnese collection in Rome, is a massive and elaborated Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture. It is the largest single sculpture yet recovered from antiquity. Along
Farnese Hercules
…bronze replicas, created in various sizes for free-standing or table-top display. The statue is shown in the 1954 film Journey to Italy along with the Farnese Bull. A replica, titled Herakles in Ithaka I, was erected in 1989 on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. The statue was a gift from its sculptor…
Engravings such as this, dated 1633, made the image familiar.
View showing the standing figure of Antiope that is obscured in typical photographs of the sculpture
The Farnese Bull as it was depicted in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 12, 1911, Plate I, between pp. 480 and 481 (or pp. 472 and 473 depending on edition), Fig. 51.