ID: 700001285 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001285	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Farnese Herculese (sculpture (visual works); Glykon of Athens (sculptor, active ca. 200-220 CE); copy aft...; 3rd century CE; Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Napoli province, Campa...; Inv. 6001)

Note: Large marble statue by Glykon representing a heavily muscled Hercules leaning on his club. According to the inscription, it is probably a version of a work by ancient sculptor Lysippos or his school; made in the 3rd century CE for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, where it was found in 1546. When discovered, the statue had no head or legs. The sculptor Guglielmo della Porta, a pupil of Michelangelo, worked on the restoration. He replaced the original head, which had been found six years before, and provided the statue with new legs. The original legs were discovered a few years after the restoration, but it was not until 1787 that they were restored by Carlo Albacini (fl. 1780-1807).

Titles:

Farnese Herculese (preferred,C,U,PO,English-P,U,U)

Ercole Farnese (C,U,RP,Italian-P,U,U)

Hercule Farnèse (C,U,French,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 3rd century CE

Creator Display:

Glykon of Athens (sculptor, active ca. 200-220 CE); copy after Lysippos; restorations by Guglielmo della Porta and Carlo Albacini [preferred,VP]

restorer Albacini, Carlo (Italian sculptor, 1735-1813) [500031035]

sculptor Glykon of Athens (Roman sculptor, active ca. 200-220 CE) [500038154]

artist Lysippos (Greek sculptor, active ca. 370-ca. 300 BCE) [500012332]

restorer Porta, Guglielmo della (Italian architect, sculptor, and restorer, born between 1500 and 1510, died 1577) [500001864]

Locations:

Current: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Napoli province, Campania, Italy) [500303441] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Inv. 6001

Credit Line: Farnese Collection

Address Note: Ground floor, room I

Display Materials: marble

	marble (rock) [300011443]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)

Dimensions: height: 3.17 m

Cultures:

Ancient Greek (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Hercules [901000042]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Baths of Caracalla; exhibited in the court of honour of the Palazzo Farnese until 1787, when it was brought to Naples and set up in the old porcelain factory of Capodimonte. In 1792 it passed to the Museo degli Studi, now the Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Related Works:

	former architectural context was .... Baths of Caracalla [700009231]
	..........thermae; unknown Roman architects; patron: Caracalla (Roman emperor, ...; ca. 211-216 CE; Rome (Roma, Lazio, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TGN hie...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Farnese Herculese	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-)
Ercole Farnese	........ [VP]
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-)
Hercule Farnèse	........ [VP]
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 25 January 2017