Lysippos, Farnese Hercules

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Lysippos, Farnese Hercules발음듣기

(jazz music) Dr. Zucker: We're in Naples at the Archaeological Museum, looking at one of the most famous sculptures from all of antiquity.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: It was discovered in the Renaissance during archaeological excavations in Rome of the Baths of Caracalla.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: This is the so-called Farnese Hercules and it gets that name because it was excavated by the Farnese family.발음듣기

They had been looking for building materials to take from ancient sites to build a new palace, but what they found in the Baths were an extraordinary array of ancient sculptures.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: We can reconstruct the original site for this colossal sculpture.발음듣기

There were mosaic floors, walls made of different colored marble.발음듣기

It was an incredibly luxurious bathing complex, used by thousands of Romans every day and it was decorated with hundreds of sculptures, many of them colossal, like this one.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: These were really complex structures, these bathing facilities. There were the baths themselves.발음듣기

Some were cold, some were hot.발음듣기

There were rooms for transition from one temperature to another.발음듣기

There were places where one could exercise and this sculpture makes perfect sense in this environment.발음듣기

This is a place where you would go to work out, where you would go to exercise.발음듣기

You could look at this wildly muscular figure and have a bit of a goal.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: Many of the sculptures that were found in the Baths of Caracalla were not the typical, ideal, athletic copies of Greek sculptures that we think of, but they were especially bulky, like the Hercules that we see here.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: We know that some successful Greek athletes would sometimes dedicate sculptures to Hercules in a way thanking him for their successes.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: He was a symbol of strength and heroism.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: You can see that here, but there's also irony in Lysippos' treatment, because even as we see this wildly powerful figure, this incredible musculature, we also see a figure that is exhausted.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: He really is.발음듣기

He leans almost his full weight on a club that's propped up under his arm, so you're right, there is an irony between the brute strength of his articulated muscles and the languorousness of his pose.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Look at the way in which that abdomen is articulated.발음듣기

Look at the strength of his right shoulder, of his right upper arm. It's really massive.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: He thrusts his right hip out, so that he can fully lean his weight on his left side.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: There is this marvelous contrapposto, although the legs seem to be somewhat reversed, but I love the way his torso slouches over as he leans and there's this overemphasized turn of that torso.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: But the club doesn't look like a very secure support.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: No, the whole thing is slightly precarious.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: It seems as if Lysippos and Glycon, who copied Lysippos' sculpture and there are more than 80 copies of sculptures of the weary Hercules that have survived, but it does seem as though he's calling our attention to Hercules' hands and Hercules is famous as a hero who became a god and who these amazing exploits, the 12 labors of Hercules.발음듣기

I'm noticing the open left hand and the way that the right hand is brought behind his back, so we really want to move around the sculpture to see what's in his right hand.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: That's right.발음듣기

The artist has set us up so that we absolutely want to walk around.발음듣기

The left hand is not original, that's been lost.발음듣기

So what we're seeing is a plaster reconstruction, but the right hand is original and if you walk around the sculpture, you actually see that he's holding the apples that he would have gotten from one of those labors, the labor the apples of the Hesperides.발음듣기

This is all part of the legend of Heracles.발음듣기

Heracles was the original Greek figure and the Romans would call him Hercules.발음듣기

What happened was this brute of a man, in a fit, killed his children.발음듣기

The gods of Mount Olympus punished him by putting this man, Heracles, who was the son of a god and of a human, therefore a hero.발음듣기

They made him subservient to a king and he had to perform whatever deeds this king asked of him for 12 years. This was his punishment.발음듣기

The king asked of him tremendously difficult tasks.발음듣기

The first of which was the killing of the Nemean lion.발음듣기

If you look carefully, just draped over the club, you can see the pelt of that lion that he had slayed.발음듣기

This sculpture is actually referring to two of those labors.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: One of the things that seems a little strange as we look up at him is how small his head is.발음듣기

This is something that Lysippos, the Greek sculptor.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: The original sculptor.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: That this was based on, was known for, was changing the cannon of proportions that existed during the Classical period in Greece in the fifth century where there was more of a sense of harmony and balance between the parts of the body.발음듣기

Lysippos created a new set of proportions, where the figure was taller, the head was smaller, and they gave the figure a new sense of elegance.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Elegance and also of height.발음듣기

Here, it's married, of course, with this increased bulk.발음듣기

The other thing that Lysippos is so well known for, which you mentioned earlier, is the way in which he begins to break out of the more restricted space that Classical figures had generally occupied, so that by extending, for instance, that left hand, by moving that right hand behind his back, he really does invite us to understand this sculpture in the round, as opposed to seeing it as a frontal object.발음듣기

The thing that strikes me most, though, about this sculpture, is the way in which we can understand his feeling of exhaustion and the way that's contrasted against the potential energy and power of that body.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: The things that we're talking about, the new cannon of proportions, the way that we're asked to move around the sculpture, not only do I want to walk behind it to see what's in his right hand, but I also want to walk to the place where he is looking down to, so we can look up at his face and see the expression, the sense of empathy we have for him.발음듣기

These are all things that are typical of the Hellenistic period of ancient Greek art that this copy was based on.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Clearly, something that the Romans really appreciated. (jazz music)발음듣기

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