Farnese Hercules
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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
Face
Left arm leaning on the club
Farnese Bull
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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
The Farnese Bull
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.