Hercules Farnese

Hercules Farnese - statue
CensusID: 156663
Alias
Farnese Hercules
Herakles Farnese
Ercole del Cortile Farnese
Type Heracles Farnese
Location
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Inventory no. inv. 6001
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
Original
Number
Descriptive Details
Dimensions
sculpture
statue
marble
restored
no
01
figure
male
standing
nude
bearded
curled hair
right arm on the back
resting with left arm on his club
lion-skin
apples
rock
Hercules
Herakles
Heracles
inscription on rock (Greek):
Γλυκον
Glykon Athenaios epoiei
height: 3.17 m
History
Date of Creation
Style
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
Renaissance Attribution(s)
Condition when first known
Reason
Documentation
Preservation Event(s)
100, around
Early Imperial Roman
Glykon
Glykon
damaged/fragmentary
excavated
> Vacca 1594 > no. 023 (pp. 12-13) (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 148.D - p. 163.A > p. 157.F - p. 158.A (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 145.D - p. 159.A > p. 154.B (Census)
Date
1546
Action
excavated
Person responsible Farnese, Alessandro
Note(s)
in the baths of Caracalla
Documentation:
> Vacca 1594 > no. 023 (pp. 12-13) (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 148.D - p. 163.A > p. 157.F - p. 158.A (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 145.D - p. 159.A > p. 154.B (Census)
Date
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ante 1550
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Action
removed from original context
Person responsible Farnese, Alessandro
Note(s)
Moved to the Palazzo Farnese.
Documentation:
> Vacca 1594 > no. 023 (pp. 12-13) (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 148.D - p. 163.A > p. 157.F - p. 158.A (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 145.D - p. 159.A > p. 154.B (Census)
> De' Cavalieri I-II, ante 1584 > pl. 027 (Census)
Roma, Bibl. Angelica: > inv. LL.21.14 > fol. 10 (Census)
> Franzini 1596 > pl. B 05 (Census)
> Bartsch, vol. III, p. 44, no. 143 (Census)
Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
16th cent.
partly restored
Della Porta, Guglielmo
The restoration of the legs were made according
to a draft of Michelangelo.
(cf. Denkmäler Katalog 2006)
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Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
unknown
partly restored
unknown
left lower arm
left hand
Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
1787
removed
Albacini, Carlo
After restoration, including the substitution of the
restored legs against the original ones, moved to
Naples.
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
Location
Note(s)
1546
Roma, Regio XII, Baths of Caracalla
Antonio da Sangallo's drawing (GDSU 1206 A r) gives the
exact findspot of both colossal statues of Hercules in the
passage from the "sala grande" to the adjacent "bagno più
basso".
Documentation:
> Vacca 1594 > no. 023 (pp. 12-13) (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 148.D - p. 163.A > p. 157.F - p. 158.A (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 145.D - p. 159.A > p. 154.B (Census)
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 1206 A r > A (Census)
Date
ante 1550-1568
Location Roma, Palazzo Farnese
Documentation:
> Vacca 1594 > no. 023 (pp. 12-13) (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 148.D - p. 163.A > p. 157.F - p. 158.A (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 145.D - p. 159.A > p. 154.B (Census)
> De' Cavalieri I-II, ante 1584 > pl. 027 (Census)
Roma, Bibl. Angelica: > inv. LL.21.14 > fol. 10 (Census)
> Franzini 1596 > pl. B 05 (Census)
> Bartsch, vol. III, p. 44, no. 143 (Census)
> Farnese Inventory 1568 > p. 74 > l. 20 (Census)
Date
Location
1608-1767
Roma, Palazzo Farnese
Relationships
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Census Document(s):
Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer: > inv. 5981
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 1206 A r > A
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 148.D - p. 163.A > p. 157.F - p. 158.A
Roma, Bibl. Angelica: > inv. LL.21.14 > fol. 10
Firenze, Bargello: > inv. 1879, no. 202
Firenze, Bargello: > inv. 1879, no. 234
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > Ud gr. 2° 15 > no. 106
Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins: > inv. 4968 r > D
Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins: > inv. 4968 r > E
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > Ud gr. 2° 15 > no. 054
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. A 103
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 145.D - p. 159.A > p. 154.B
> Farnese Inventory 1568 > p. 74 > l. 20
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. C 713
> Sotheby's (New York) 1972:11:11
> De' Cavalieri I-II, ante 1584 > pl. 027
> Bartsch, vol. XV, p. 401, no. 41
Haarlem, Teyler's Stichting: > inv. K III 30 r
Haarlem, Teyler's Stichting: > Portfolio N, 19 r
Haarlem, Teyler's Stichting: > Portfolio N, 20 r
> Bartsch, vol. III, p. 44, no. 143
> Vacca 1594 > no. 023 (pp. 12-13)
> Vacca 1594 > no. 077 (p. 32)
> Franzini 1596 > pl. B 05
Firenze, Bargello: > inv. ?
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 14787 F r
London, V & A: > inv. A.138-1910
> Parke Bernet (New York) 1970:3:26
> Bartsch, vol. XV, p. 530, no. 24
> TIB, vol. 31, p. 102, no. 41
Siena, Bibl. Comunale: > inv. S.II.2, fol. 13 v
untraced: > lot 55
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. A 074
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. A 141
Corpus Winckelmann Document(s):
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002)
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002)
> book 2 > ch. 3 > p. 718
> book 1 > ch. 4 > p. 276
> book 1 > ch. 4 > p. 360
> book 1 > ch. 3 > p. 158
> book 1 > ch. 4 > p. 466
> p. 277 > ll. 03-13
> p. 157 > ll. 13-20
> p. 321 > ll. 16-21
> pp. 717/719 > ll. 24-13
> p. 511 > ll. 25-27
> p. 359 > ll. 31-34
> ll. 01-14
> ll. 03-07
> ll. 05-09
> ll. 15-23
> ll. 16-17
Original:
untraced: Herakles - statue
Parallel Replica(s) known to Renaissance:
Firenze, Palazzo Pitti: Herakles of Farnese Type with Head of Commodus - statue
Caserta, Palazzo Reale: Hercules with Bull's Head - statue
Firenze, Uffizi: Hercules - statue
Roma, Villa Borghese: Hercules - statue
Later known Replica(s):
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Firenze, Palazzo Pitti
Cortile
Cf. Medici Hercules.
References
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New Haven/London 1981 > pp. 229-232
> Krull, Diethelm: Der Herakles vom Typ Farnese. Kopienkritische Untersuchung einer Schöpfung des
Lysipp, (Europäische Hochschulschriften XXXVIII), Frankfurt am Main 1985 > passim
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Comment
added:
Peter Betthausen
Thomas Fröhlich
Brigitte Kuhn
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