Farnese Hercules Statue, 13" Greek Mythology Decor, Heracles Marble Sculpture, Museum Copy, Ancient Greece Art, Classical Male Nude Decor

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HANDMADE IN GREECE
SOLID & HEAVY
look and feel of natural marble

Dimensions (approximately):
Height :  33 cm    (13 inches)
Width: 15,5 cm (6.1 in)
Weight:  2,85 kgr    ( 6.28 lb)
 
 Material: Cast Marble
Cast Marble statues are made from a composite material in which natural crushed Greek Marble stone is mixed with a small quantity of resin that works as a glue.
Our statue is a based on the famous sculpture, known as «The Farnese Hercules», which is exhibited in in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples.

The Farnese Hercules (Italian: Ercole Farnese) is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; the name is Greek but he may have worked in Rome. Like much Ancient Roman sculpture it is a copy or version of a much older Greek original that was well known, in this case a bronze by Lysippos that would have been made in the fourth century BC. The Farnese Hercules is a massive marble statue, following a lost original cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting. It depicts a muscular, yet weary, Hercules leaning on his club, which has the skin of the Nemean lion draped over it. In myths about Heracles, killing the lion was his first task. He has just performed one of the last of The Twelve Labours, which is suggested by the apples of the Hesperides he holds behind his back.