The Farnese Hercules

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli (Naples National Archaeological Museum) is located in Naples, Italy. It contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum. The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. Some of the pieces were collected by Cosimo de' Medici and Lorenzo il Magnifico in the 15th century. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 928 KB) Description: Ercole farnese Source: self-made Location: National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy Photographer: Massimo Finizio File links The following pages link to this file: Naples National Archaeological Museum Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 928 KB) Description: Ercole farnese Source: self-made Location: National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy Photographer: Massimo Finizio File links The following pages link to this file: Naples National Archaeological Museum Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from... The Farnese Hercules, engraved by Hendrick Goltzius, dated 1617. ... Alternate uses: See Naples (disambiguation) Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα-Πόλις, latinised in Neapolis) is the largest town in southern Italy, capital of Campania region. ... I archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. ... A computer-generated depiction of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 which buried Pompeii, from Discovery Channels Pompeii: The Last Day. ... The excavations of Ercolano Herculaneum (in modern Italian formerly Resina, but since 1969 Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano, in the Italian region of Campania. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... In the traditional view, the Renaissance is understood as an historical age that was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation. ... Jacopo Pontormo: Cosimo de Medici, 1518-1519 Cosimo di Giovanni de Medici (September 27, 1389 – August 1, 1464), was the first of the Medici political dynasty, rulers of Florence during most of the Italian Renaissance; also known as Cosimo the Elder and Cosimo Pater Patriae. ... The exact same full name was also carried by his grandson Lorenzo (1492 - 1519), Duke of Urbino, with whom he is sometimes confused. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...

Among the notable works found in the museum are:

• The Farnese Hercules, who fixed the image of Hercules in the European imagination.
• The Farnese Atlas is the oldest extant depiction of Atlas from Greek mythology, and the oldest view of the Western constellations, possibly based upon the star catalog of Hipparchus
• The Farnese Bull is another of the famous Farnese Marbles. It is widely consisidered the largest single sculpture ever recovered from antiquity.
• The Farnese Cup is the most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent"; it is a bowl made of sardonyx agate.
• The Secret Cabinet, a separately housed collection of erotic Roman art.
• The Placentarius, the small bronze statue represents a distinctly ithyphallic old nude man who, on the palm of his hand, holds a little silver tray.

The Farnese Hercules, engraved by Hendrick Goltzius, dated 1617. ... Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) In Greek mythology, Heracles, or Herakles (glory of Hera, Ἥρα + κλέος, )(Etruscan Hercle) was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, stepson of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus. ... The Farnese Atlas at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy. ... In Greek mythology, Atlas was a member of a race of giant gods known as Titans. ... In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. ... Hipparchus. ... The Farnese Bull is a massive sculpture attributed to the Rhodian artists Apollonius of Tralles and his brother Tauriscus. ... The Farnese Marbles are a group of classical sculptures that form part of the Farnese Collection which can be seen in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archaeologico Nazionale) in Naples. ... Ancient history is the study of significant cultural and political events from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages. ... Agate is a term applied not to a distinct mineral species, but to an aggregate of various forms of silica, chiefly chalcedony. ... The term Secret Museum (or Secret Cabinet/Gabinetto Segreto) principally refers to the collection of erotic or sexually explicit finds from Pompeii, held in the Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy. ...

External links

• Museum website
• Museum Guide to Naples information