April 15, 2024

Photo of the Week: Farnese Hercules in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

The Ercole Farnese is an early third century AD copy by the Athenian Glykon of a
4th century BC bronze statue by Lysippus for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
The original was destroyed in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople

Photo by New York Scugnizzo