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The Farnese Bull as it was depicted in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 12, 1911, Plate I, between pp. 480 and 481 (or pp. 472 and 473 depending on edition), Fig. 51. An oblique front view of the Farnese Bull.
The Farnese Hercules at the Naples National Archaeological Museum. The Farnese Collection is one of the first collections of artistic items from Greco-Roman antiquity.It includes some of the most influential classical works, including the sculptures that were part of the Farnese Marbles, their collection of statuary, which includes world-famous works like the Farnese Hercules, Farnese Cup ...
The Farnese Bull, widely considered the largest single sculpture ever recovered from antiquity. The group Harmodius and Aristogeiton, a Roman copy of a bronze work that once stood in the Agora of Athens; The Aphrodite Kallipygos; The Farnese Artemis, again a Roman copy of a Greek original; A collection of busts of Roman emperors
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The Farnese Artemis or Artemis of Ephesus is a 2nd-century AD sculpture of the ancient goddess ... in fact bull scrotums, ... Naples. pp. 81–133 [105 and note 198]. ...
Among the well-known pieces recovered from the Baths of Caracalla are the Farnese Bull (probably from the eastern palaestra) and Farnese Hercules (from the frigidarium), now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; others are in the Museo di Capodimonte there. One of the many statues is the colossal 4 m (13 ft) statue of Asclepius.
Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano.The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important ancient Roman sculptures.
The statue is shown in the 1954 film Journey to Italy along with the Farnese Bull. A replica, titled Herakles in Ithaka I , was erected in 1989 on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY . The statue was a gift from its sculptor, Jason Seley , a professor of fine arts.