The marble statue of a bearded hercules.
Marble statue of a bearded hercules description.
Restorations made during the early 17th century.
Head and neck right arm below the.
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.
The marble statue of hercules bearded derives from the flavian dynasty around the same time as the youthful hercules.
The original was created in c a.
Again the sense of masculinity is portrayed around the posture and genital exposure.
Both legs the plinth the support at the left leg pieces in the lion s skin.
The arms were also restored but have been removed.
On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 162.
It must have been made as one of a pair with the over life sized statue of a bearded hercules displayed across the courtyard.
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.
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.
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.
Polykleitos was a greek sculptor who worked during the mid fifth century b c.
Much to the latter the contrapposto is also evident based on how he is standing.
Marble statue of a youthful hercules.
Marble statue of a bearded hercules a d.
Restorations made during the early 17th century.