🗿 Sculpture "Resting Hercules" (Farnese - Pitti type) (8).

 🗿 Sculpture "Resting Hercules" (Farnese - Pitti type).

Marble
Roman work of the late 2nd - early 3rd century. n. e. from a bronze sample by Lysippos, 2nd half of the 4th century. BC e.
Naples
National Archaeological Museum
Private collection of Farnese
Origin: Found in Rome, in the Baths of Caracalla.
Hercules of Farnese is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity.
The sculpture is a Roman (or possibly made in the Athens workshop of Glykon) copy of the 3rd century from a Greek original of the 4th century BC that has not reached us. e., the authorship of which belongs to Lysippos or one of the sculptors of his circle.
Hercules of Farnese was originally cast in bronze using the lost wax casting method developed by Lysippus. The statue depicts a weary Hercules leaning on his famous club, over which is draped the skin of the Nemean lion. In his right hand, placed behind his back, Hercules holds three apples, which suggests that the sculptor captured the hero during one of his twelve labors - the theft of the apples of the Hesperides.
The statue was popular among the Romans, and copies of it decorated many ancient Roman palaces and gymnasiums.
 According to the memoirs of the Italian naturalist Ulysses Aldrovandi, recorded in 1592, the statue was discovered in 1546 during excavations of the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla (built in 216).
The find soon joined the collection of the Duke of Parma, Alessandro Farnese, nephew of Pope Paul III. Before taking its place in the museum exhibition in Naples, the statue was placed in the Duke's personal chambers in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, where, according to Giorgio Vasari, it was surrounded by frescoes depicting the Duke's exploits, painted by Federico Zuccari in 1566-1569.

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