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	Palazzo Farnese, Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Construction began in 1517(1), commissioned by Alessandro Farnese, who had been appointed as a Cardinal in 1493 at age 25 (thanks to his sister, who was Pope Alexander VI Borgia's official mistress) and was living a princely lifestyle.
		The Palazzo was inherited from the Farnese by the Bourbon kings of Naples, from whom the French government purchased it in 1874.
		Satellite photo- The Palazzo Farnese is the massive, almost square, court-yarded structure in the center of the photo, to the North of the Tiber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palazzo_Farnese (546 words)

	Farnese Atlas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Farnese Atlas at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy.
		The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of Atlas kneeling with a globe weighing heavily on his shoulders.
		The name Farnese Atlas reflects its acquisition by Alessandro Cardinal Farnese in the early 16th century, and its subsequent exhibition in the Villa Farnese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farnese_Atlas (426 words)

	Palazzo Farnese, Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Palazzo Farnese, Rome (housing the French Embassy), is 'the most imposing Italian palace of the sixteenth century' (Sir Banister Fletcher) (1).
		The palace was commissioned by Alessandro Farnese, who had been made Cardinal in 1493 when he turned 25 (thanks to his sister, who was Pope Alexander VI Borgia's official mistress) and was living a princely lifestyle.
		Here has stood for generations the Farnese Hercules, one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity, which has fixed the image of Hercules in the European imagination.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/palazzo_farnese__rome.html (338 words)

	Hercules
		The Farnese Hercules in turn is actually a Roman copy of an even older sculpture attributed to Lysippos, a Greek sculptor who lived during the time of Alexander the Great (and in fact made several portrait busts of the Macedonian king).
		The Farnese Hercules is named so because after its discovery in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1540, the sculpture was installed within the arcade around the courtyard of the Farnese Palace, also located in Rome.
		Hercules was unable to slay the lion with his arrows or club due to the beast’s invulnerable hide.
	homepages.ius.edu /RVEST/Herc.html (1058 words)

	BBC - Shropshire - Features - Hercules returns
		Shrewsbury's famous statue of the Farnese Hercules was taken down from his plinth in The Quarry in the summer of 2003, and sent off for a full restoration.
		The Shrewsbury Hercules was cast from a sketch of the original Greek Helenistic marble origibnal by the Greek sculptor Glycon.
		Hercules arrived on specialist transport and was being re-erected in his former haunt - The Dingle - early this morning.
	www.bbc.co.uk /shropshire/features/2004/02/hercules.shtml (529 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hercules
		The fourth labor of Hercules was to capture the hind.
		It is one of the Pillars of Hercules, at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
		Hebe HEBE [Hebe], in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of youth; daughter of Zeus and Hera and wife of Hercules.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Hercules&StartAt=21 (472 words)

	Bodenheimer Gallery - Farnese Football
		The two sides of the football are painted with images of the Farnese Hercules, a statue attributed to the Greek sculptor Lysippos in the 4th century B.C.E. A marble copy of the original lost bronze statue, was excavated from the ruined Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1546.
		It shows Hercules leaning on his club, with the skin of the Nemean Lion, the killing of which was one of his Twelve Labors.
		Although the sculptor Giambologna shows Hercules using his club, the poet Apollodorus says Nessus was killed with an arrow, poisoned with the blood of the many headed Hydra, the monster Hercules killed as one of his Twelve Labors.
	www.bodenheimer.com /qt040farnesefootball.htm (1693 words)

	Hercules, Greek hero. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Hercules incurred the everlasting wrath of Hera because he was the child of her unfaithful husband.
		When he was a young man, Hercules defended Thebes from the armies of a neighboring city, Orchomenus, and was rewarded with Megara, daughter of King Creon.
		Perhaps the most famous statue of him is the Farnese Hercules in the National Museum in Naples.
	www.bartleby.com /65/he/HerculesGk.html (492 words)

	Greek God Hercules Statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Hercules was the son of Zeus and Alcmena, who Zeus seduced in the shape of her husband Amphitryon, king of Thebes.
		The Farnese Hercules statue has the Nemean lion skin, the one he had slain with his bare hands, under his arm.
		Furthermore, the Farnese Hercules statue is one of the finest sculptures showing his tremendous strength by the way his muscles are so carefully sculpted on his body.
	www.atherbys.com /grgodhest.html (251 words)

	Hercules Wall Hanging Relief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		200 B.C. The Farnese Hercules, a Roman copy of a Greek original by Lysippos that has been lost, is the finest surviving sculpture of the famous Greek mythological hero.
		Hercules, (Herakles in Greece) was the son of the mighty God Zeus and the mortal Alcmene.
		She sent two serpents to destroy him but even as an infant in the cradle, hercules strangled the serpents, demonstrating the power that was to characterize his life.
	www.angelsandearthlythings.com /g7.html (161 words)

	Chapter Herculêes <i>to</i> Hermês Trismegistus of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Herculêes shot Nessus for offering insult to his wife Di -i-a-ni-ra, and the dying centaur told Diianira that if she dipped in his blood her husband’s shirt, she would secure his love for ever.
		Herculêes, being about to offer sacrifice, sent Lichas for the shirt; but no sooner was it warmed by the heat of his body than it caused such excruciating agony that the hero went mad, and, seizing Lichas, he flung him into the sea.
		Herculês gave his hand to the latter, and hence led a life of great toil, but was ultimately received amongst the immortals.—Xenophon.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1118/14742/1.html (576 words)

	Herakles (Hercules) Farnese
		The Farnese Hercules was discovered in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1540 and was soon installed within the arcade around the courtyard of the Farnese Palace.
		Probably the Hercules of the Telephos Frieze, from the Pergamon Zeus temple, is a work that is based on the resting Hercules of Lysippos.
		Hercules and Lichas, Antonio Canova, probably inspired by the Hercules Farnese.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/HerculesFarnese.htm (628 words)

	Images of Bears in Art
		As we toured Rome, our favorite mythical figure and popular subject for classical sculpture was undoubtedly Hercules, readily identifiable by the club he carries and the fashionable lion's skin he's usually wearing.
		Hercules in this portrayal is euphemistically described as "drunken".
		The Farnese Hercules is one of the finest and sexiest of the many, many images of Hercules in classical art.
	www.bearcastle.com /jeffandisaac/bears/bearsna/bearsna.php (490 words)

	Art History 110
		Goltzius's, The Great Hercules (1589) presents the mythological hero by alluding to his twelve labours and reminding informed viewers of a story with which they were most likely familiar.
		Accordingly, in the print, Hercules is depicted holding his club over his left shoulder and wearing the skin of the Nemean lion.
		His print, The Farnese Hercules, showed the statue to people who couldn't actually go visit it or who wanted to display it in their homes; again an objective that appealed only to the educated people who knew of the statue, or at least of Hercules and his adventures.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/arth110-fall98/james.htm (1022 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Farnese
		1537) and (1538) to Ottavio Farnese, duke of Parma.
		Charles III CHARLES III [Charles III] 1716-88, king of Spain (1759-88) and of Naples and Sicily (1735-59), son of Philip V and Elizabeth Farnese.
		Josephs faces testy challenge for seat: Farnese points to lack of legislation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Farnese&StartAt=11 (637 words)

	Hercules
		Marble reproduction of "Farnese Hercules" by Lysippos or one of his followers, 4th century BC Maximinus II, AE Reduced Follis (21 mm), 312, Nicomedia, Officina 4.
		The Hercules coin of the series shows the demigod with a lyre, the very type of instrument he used to slay Linus.
		VIRTVS A_VGG Hercules in the garden of the Hisperides, holding club and apple, standing right under apple tree, round which is entwined a serpent.
	www.beastcoins.com /Topical/Hercules/Hercules.htm (2486 words)

	Image Physique Photographs: Hercules, Demigod, Symbol of Strength (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In extreme pain Hercules ordered a funeral pyre erected and threw himself into the flames.
		Having a muscular body is a way of showing strength and if you watch weight lifters they flex themselves more or less unconsciously all the time.
		Hercules is shown at rest after his labors.
	www.imagephysique.com /hercules.htm (661 words)

	Hercules Barsotti ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Albrecht D¸rer, Hercules at the Crossroads ("Der Hercules"), circa 1498 - 1499
		Hercules and the Hind with hooves of brass., 1550
		Gustave Moreau - Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra c.
	wwar.com /masters/b/barsotti-hercules.html (546 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Farnese Hercules [Far-na’-ze Hercu-lees].
		Farne’se is the name of a celebrated family in Italy, which became extinct in 1731.
		“It struck me that an ironclad is to a wooden vessel what the Farnese Hercules is to the Apollo Belvidere.
		The Hercules is not without a beauty of its own.”—The Times (Paris correspondent).
	www.bartleby.com /81/6236.html (140 words)

	Farnese Bull - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		FARNESE BULL [Farnese Bull] sculptured group representing Zethus and Amphion, sons of Antiope, tying Dirce (who had ill-treated their mother) to an enraged bull.
		The sculpture is generally considered to have been executed by Apollonius of Tralles and his brother Tauriscus in the 1st or 2d cent.
		The chapel of the courtesan and the quarrel...
	www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:FarneseB (373 words)

	Farnese Hercules (17.37.59) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The ancient Roman statue known as the Farnese Hercules had been discovered in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1546, and installed in a courtyard of the Farnese family's palace on the banks of the Tiber, where it was one of the highlights of the Roman tour for visiting scholars, connoisseurs, and artists.
		When Goltzius drew the statue, the legs he saw were substitutions that had been made by Guglielmo della Porta in 1560—although the ancient legs had been found soon after the rest of the statue, Michelangelo convinced the Farnese that the modern ones were just as good.
		The Farnese Hercules shows to excellent advantage the virtuosic technique that Goltzius had developed, in which the swelling and tapering line pioneered by Cornelis Cort is exaggerated to the point that it becomes a focus of interest in itself.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/intg/hod_17.37.59.htm (346 words)

	Chapter Farmers <i>to</i> Father of F by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		They belonged to the Rhodian school, and lived about B.C. The group represents Dirce bound to the horns of a bull by Zethus and Amphion, for ill-using their mother.
		It was restored by Bianchi in 1546, and placed in the Farnese palace, in Italy.
		It represents the hero leaning on his club, with one hand on his back, as if he had just got possession of the apple of the Hesperides.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1171/22725/1.html (602 words)

	Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Hercules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Hercules was the Roman name of Heracles, or more precisely the Roman adaptation of the Greek hero of that name.
		Popular culture construes the names to be synonymous, in the sense that one speaks of the Labors of Hercules, meaning the tasks assigned the hero in Greek mythology.
		But there may have been a different Italian hero of legendary strength who was mixed with the Heracles brought to Italy by Greek colonists.
	www.mythweb.com /encyc/gallery/hercules_c.html (72 words)

	Farnese Hercules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The jealous Hera, vengeful because of her husband's infidelity, sent two serpents to destroy the infant Hercules in his cradle but even at that age he strangled the serpents, demonstrating the power that was to characterize his life.
		The twelve labors assigned to Hercules as repentance for having killed his own children began with the slaying of the Nemean lion with his own hands.
		The Farnese Hercules with obvious reference to his tremendous strength is probably the finest of many sculptural representations of the hero.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/farnese_hercules.html (135 words)

	Hercules Hernandez The dark side of Hercules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		One of the most classic and certainly the most impressive image of Hercules is the Farnese Hercules.
		In the bodybuilding world the man who most closely resembled the rugged build of the Farnese Hercules is Reg Parc.
		Reg was a contemporary of Steve Reeves and battled Reeves for the title in 1947 in a legendary confrontation, won narrowly by Reeves.
	home.casema.nl /sheersink/herc002.htm (157 words)

	Hercules Reborn In Cyberspace Thanks To AccessArt & Show Me - Liverpool City Guide news
		Inspired by the classic Farnese Hercules cast on show at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, which houses one of the largest collections of plaster casts of Greek and Roman statues in the world, it will teach children all about one of Greece's greatest heroes.
		Commissioned by www.show.me.uk and produced by AccessArt, the workshop, called Hercules, is a powerful visual learning tool for 7 to 11 year olds designed in Flash MX.
		Hercules forms part of Show Me, a national museum and gallery website resource for children, teachers and parents and will also appear on AccessArt’s award-winning website.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /liverpool/news/ART20602.html?ixsid= (601 words)

	MANN: Greek and Roman sculpture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This attitude is in sharp contrast with the traditional images of the hero; the Naples Hercules is thoughtful and introspective, and seems almost to have forgotten his exploit, or even to be attempting to hide its tokens.
		Indeed, the style of the work shows typical traits of the time of this celebrated Greek sculptor; furthermore, Hercules seems to have been one of his favorite iconographic subjects.
		In the Thermae of Caracalla, the Farnese Hercules was a pendant to another colossal statue known as the "Latin Hercules", presently in the Bourbonic Kings' residence at Caserta (Reggia di Caserta)
	www.archeona.arti.beniculturali.it /sanc_en/mann/it1/01_06.html (238 words)

	Male - Farnese Hercules at Rest Naples Museum Art - eMuseumStore.com Art Reproductions
		Resting is a rare occurrence for the mythological hero Hercules, but here he leans wearily after completing his Twelve Labors.
		200, the Farnese Hercules (named after its most famous owner) has an immense physical form modeled after the idealism of classical Greek heroes.
		Hercules and Diomedes Sculpture - Hercules and Diomedes - 20
	www.emuseumstore.com /ShowView/product/1224/160 (121 words)

	Herakles (Hercules) and Theseus
		The first image is from the Classical period, one of the figures from the pediment of the Aphaia temple at Aegina (which was introduced in section 5), with Herakles aiming a now-missing bow and arrow.
		The next image is a Hellenistic portrait statue known as the "Farnese Hercules", which shows his muscular body exaggerated to an almost ridiculous degree; the contrast between these two underscores the difference bewteen these two styles.
		The painting following is one of the main panels of the 'Camerino', a portion of the Farnese gallery by Carracci, known as "Hercules at the Crossroads", from 1596.
	www.uwm.edu /Course/mythology/0900/herakles.htm (4048 words)

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