• The Farnese Hercules is a massive marble statue, following a lost original that was cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting.
  • More than 200 large-and small -scale replicas and variations of the " Farnese Hercules " from the Roman period show the celebrity who had the statue in antiquity.
  • The Florentine reproduction of Hercules dates back to the middle of the 2nd century A.D. and was probably copied from a bronze original from late 4th century B.C...
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  • Still, despite his size, the emphasis on his tiredness after the hard work of hefting up the heavens indicates that the Farnese Hercules is a very human hero.
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  • The Farnese Hercules is a Roman marble statue depicting the mythological hero Hercules (Heracles in Greek mythology).
  • Farnese Hercules (2nd quarter of the 17th century) by Giovanni Francesco Susini, after antiquity, an object of LIECHTENSTEIN.
  • Dr. Zucker: [0:17] This is the so-called “Farnese Hercules.” It gets that name because it was excavated by the Farnese family.