Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Hercules
Alternate Title:
Heracles
Image View:
Overall view from front
Creator:
after Lysippos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 370-ca. 300 BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
via Sant’Apollinare, 46 (Palazzo Altemps)
GPS:
41.901169 12.473062
Date:
Greek original, 4th-5th century BCE (other); Roman copy, ca. 100-199 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Classical; Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
deities; human figure; mythology (Classical); Heracles (Greek mythological character); Hercules (Roman mythological character)
Description:
Roman marble copy from the 2nd century CE after a Greek original from the 4th century BCE associated with sculptors Scopas or Lysippos.
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-PAL-HER-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Hercules