Restorations made during the early 17th century.
Marble statue of a bearded hercules description.
Head and neck right arm below the.
Much to the latter the contrapposto is also evident based on how he is standing.
Again the sense of masculinity is portrayed around the posture and genital exposure.
Polykleitos was a greek sculptor who worked during the mid fifth century b c.
This statue was part of the collection of antiquities acquired in rome by the marchese vincenzo giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century.
The statue and the over life sized statue of young hercules across the courtyard in all probability were made as a pair to decorate one of the great spaces in a large public bath.
The marble statue of diadoumenos is a copy of the original bronze statue displaying a young man tying a fillet around his head.
It must have been made as one of a pair with the over life sized statue of a bearded hercules displayed across the courtyard.
The original was created in c a.
By a man called polykleitos of argos.
The marble statue of hercules bearded derives from the flavian dynasty around the same time as the youthful hercules.
Both legs the plinth the support at the left leg pieces in the lion s skin.
On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 162.
Marble statue of a bearded hercules roman ad 68 98 the metropolitan museum of art the met upper manhattan new york city new york state usa.
Marble statue of a youthful hercules.
T he greek and roman galleries at the metropolitan museum of art features a magnificent marble statue of a bearded hercules roman flavian period a d.
Restorations made during the early 17th century.
The marble statue of a bearded hercules.