The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special references to its use in art (1900)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, G. H. (George Henry) · New York : American Book · leaf 251
ippus, the Farnese Hercules is supposedto be a copy of a work of Lysippus, of which nothing further isknown. Still more important as a work of art, though it has reached usin a terribly mutilated condition—minus head, arms, and legs — isthe celebrated Torso of Hercules, in the Vatican. This was… … Fig. 58.—Faruese Hercules. PROVINCIAL HEROIC LEGENDS. 249 artists, who delighted to portray the different scenes of his versa-tile life. Numberless representations of such scenes occur, not onlyin the form of statues and works in relief, but more especially onancient vases. We mention here, in the…
Mythology, Classical · Art, Greek · Art, Roman
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