Farnese Herakles (?)
- Title:
- Farnese Herakles (?)
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Glykon the Athenian (Roman copy)
Lysippos (Greek original) (original)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
early 3nd c. CE (Roman copy)
ca. 320 BCE (Greek original)
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Rome, Italy (discovery site, mid 1500s) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Rome, Italy (discovery site, mid 1500s) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0462
- Accession Number:
- possibly Sage no. 284
462 - File Name:
- CCC_0462.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 3.17 (H) m (complete statue)
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek Late Classical or Early Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (Roman copy)
bronze (Greek original) (original) - Subject:
- Heracles (Greek mythology)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from top
- Measurement:
- 73 (centimeters, width)
- Description:
- This is a sizable fragment of plaster that might belong to the base of the Farnese Herakles or Hercules. It is broken on all sides with adhered wire, paper, and bricks.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 6001 - Bibliography:
- Cornelius Vermeule, "The Weary Herakles of Lysippos," AJA 79 (1975), 323-332
Paolo Moreno, Lisippo, L'Arte e la Fortuna (Milan: Fabbri Editori, 1995), 103-110
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 229-232
J. J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 50-51
Charles M. Edwards, "Lysippos," in Olga Palagia and J. J. Pollitt, eds., Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 130-153 - Related Work:
- Possibly belongs with ID nos. 127, 127a, 131, and 132. See also ID no. 696, a cast of the head of the statue.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Naples, National Archaeological Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.