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...Roman emperor Caracalla; it is similar in style to the Apoxyomenos. Lysippus’ colossal, but exhausted and melancholy, Heracles at Sicyon was the original of the Farnese Heracles, signed by Glycon as copyist. The Glycon copy has many copies extant, including one in the Pitti Palace, Florence, with an inscription naming Lysippus as the artist.
...sculpture glorifying the body that the ancient Greeks left to posterity. Lysippus’s 4th-century-bc bronze sculpture of Heracles is lost, but a Roman marble copy known as the Farnese Hercules was found about ad 1546 and, as shown in the photograph, demonstrates the ancient ideal of physical development. The ideal of physical beauty has remained an important...
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