Farnese Collection information

Farnese Marbles, their collection of statuary, which includes world-famous works like the Farnese Hercules, Farnese Cup, Farnese Bull and the Farnese...

The Farnese Hercules (Italian: Ercole Farnese) is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed...

Classicism. The famous Farnese sculpture collection, now in the National Archeological Museum of Naples, as well as other Farnese collections, now mostly in Capodimonte...

The Farnese Bull (Italian: Toro Farnese), formerly in the Farnese collection in Rome, is a massive Roman elaborated copy of a Hellenistic sculpture. It...

The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century AD Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe. Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic...

needed somewhere to house the fabulous Farnese Collection which he had inherited from his mother, Elisabetta Farnese, last descendant of the sovereign ducal...

Farnese may refer to: House of Farnese, Italian dynasty Ranuccio Farnese (1390–1450) Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese (1468–1549) Alessandro Farnese...

decided to move the Venus Kallipygos to Naples with the rest of the Farnese collection. First, however, it was sent to be restored by Carlo Albacini. Responding...

making it a Roman copy of an original by Polycleitus. As part of the Farnese collection it was brought to Naples in 1844 by German archaeologist Heinrich...

the greatest collection of Roman sculpture assembled in private hands since antiquity, the famous Farnese Collection. In 1550, when Farnese acquired a northern...

Farnese Diadumenos is a 1st-century AD, slightly smaller than lifesize, Roman marble copy of Polyclitus's Diadumenos sculpture. Once in the Farnese collection...

provenance are unknown, but this sculpture is currently a part of the Farnese Collection in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Antinous was the Greek...

The Farnese Cup or Tazza Farnese is a 2nd-century BC cameo hardstone carving bowl or cup made in Hellenistic Egypt in four-layered sardonyx agate, now...

Very famous collections that are now dispersed include the Borghese Collection and Farnese collection in Rome, and the Orleans Collection in Paris, mostly...

antiche e moderni..., 1704 (plate XXVIII) The Crouching Venus of the Farnese collection of marbles, restored with a small Eros who engages the goddess's attention...

This has the best collection of paintings from the distinct tradition of Neapolitan art, and also many works from the Farnese Collection. The palace was...

Alessandro Farnese for the main room of the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, and was executed the same year. It and the rest of the Farnese collection were...

housed in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. It was commissioned by the Farnese family and painted during Titian's visit to Rome between autumn 1545 and...

Annibale Carracci and his studio, in the Farnese Gallery which is located in the west wing of the Palazzo Farnese, now the French Embassy, in Rome. The frescoes...

The Parmesan collections were established in Renaissance times by the Farnese family, with Pope Paul III and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. In 1734, Charles...

The Villa Farnese, also known as Villa Caprarola, is a pentagonal mansion in the town of Caprarola in the province of Viterbo, Northern Lazio, Italy,...

Zeno of Citium Zeno of Citium. Bust in the Farnese collection, Naples. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1969. Born c. 334 BC Citium, Cyprus Died c. 262 BC (aged 71–72)...

of Vespasian, Pushkin Museum, Moscow Bust of Vespasian, c. 80 AD, Farnese Collection, Naples National Archaeological Museum Stele of Vespasian List of...

River Divinity, second century AD, Farnese collection, Naples National Archaeological Museum...

Head of Lucius Verus on an older statue from 50 to 75 AD, in military garb and wearing a muscle cuirass, Farnese Collection, Naples...