Bust reproduction of the Farnese Hercules.
Made in premium solid white cast stone with marble bright appearance, when fully cured it is crack and weather resistant.
Dimensions: 26x26x42 cm*
Weight: 9.5kg*
Packed weight: approximately 11kg
*Height and weight may vary slightly from different casts.
Our sculptures are produced via traditional casting methods using a premium, solid white cast stone blend of high-grade mineral components to achieve an heirloom-quality weight, texture, brightness and density that artificial materials simply cannot replicate. It carries the physical presence of real stone and is built to outlast generations, as the originals were intended to do.
Statue:
Farnese Hercules
(Ca. 320-330 BC)
History:
The Farnese Hercules is a colossal marble statue, most likely a Roman copy of a much older Greek bronze from the fourth centuy BC. The enlarged version, now the most famed, was made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome (dedicated in 216 AD) where the statue was recovered in 1546 and is now on display inthe Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. The sculpture depicts a muscular, yet weary, Hercules leaning on his club, which has the skin of the Nemean lion draped over it. In myths about Hercules, killing the lion was his first task. He has just perfomed one of the last of The Twelve Labours, which is suggested by the apples of the Hesperides he holds behind his back.
The type was well known in antiquity, and among many other versions a Hellenistic or Roman bronze reduction, found at Foligno is in the Musée du Louvre. A small Roman marble copy can be seen in the Museum of the Ancient Agora, Athens.
