![Just visited my favourite statue of all time: the Resting Hercules aka Farnese Hercules : r/ancientrome Just visited my favourite statue of all time: the Resting Hercules aka Farnese Hercules : r/ancientrome](https://preview.redd.it/just-visited-my-favourite-statue-of-all-time-the-resting-v0-g19affa6wz991.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4cd44e958f0926f8ffb4455202fa52b2759d122c)
Just visited my favourite statue of all time: the Resting Hercules aka Farnese Hercules : r/ancientrome
Mythography Studios - The Farnese Hercules is a 317 cm high Hellenistic marble sculpture by the Greek sculptor Glicone (Glikon) of Athens as you can read on the rock that supports it,
![File:Engraving of a statue of Hercules (in Farnese Palace), 1721 Wellcome M0018007.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Engraving of a statue of Hercules (in Farnese Palace), 1721 Wellcome M0018007.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Engraving_of_a_statue_of_Hercules_%28in_Farnese_Palace%29%2C_1721_Wellcome_M0018007.jpg)
File:Engraving of a statue of Hercules (in Farnese Palace), 1721 Wellcome M0018007.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
![One of my favorite sculptures of the classical era: Farnese Hercules. This one was commissioned for the Baths of Caracalla. 216 AD : r/ancientrome One of my favorite sculptures of the classical era: Farnese Hercules. This one was commissioned for the Baths of Caracalla. 216 AD : r/ancientrome](https://i.redd.it/70zbk8zuqddz.jpg)
One of my favorite sculptures of the classical era: Farnese Hercules. This one was commissioned for the Baths of Caracalla. 216 AD : r/ancientrome
Bill Pearl - The Farnese Hercules is an ancient statue, possibly an enlarged copy, made in the early third century AD. Similar to many Ancient Roman sculptures it is a copy or
![After a model by Pietro da Barga | Farnese Hercules | Italian, Florence | The Metropolitan Museum of Art After a model by Pietro da Barga | Farnese Hercules | Italian, Florence | The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/es/original/DP-466-001.jpg)