{"id":13324,"date":"2024-02-26T12:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/two-male-figures-the-farnese-hercules-and-a-seated-philosopher-statuette-in-the-british-museum\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T12:58:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:58:57","slug":"two-male-figures-the-farnese-hercules-and-a-seated-philosopher-statuette-in-the-british-museum","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/two-male-figures-the-farnese-hercules-and-a-seated-philosopher-statuette-in-the-british-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Male Figures: the Farnese Hercules and a Seated Philosopher statuette in the British Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. to observe closely and to describe clearly the visual characteristics of two works of art.<br \/>\n2. to imagine and describe how these characteristics affect (or might affect) a viewer&#8217;s experience of each work of art.<br \/>\n3. to identify and describe clearly similarities and differences between the two works.<br \/>\n4. to enjoy doing this!<br \/>\nThe Two Works:<br \/>\n1. Herakles Farnese (now in the Naples Archaeological Museum): an over-lifesize, marble sculpture, made to decorate the Baths of Caracalla in Rome (early 2nd c. CE), signed by the copyist Glykon of Athens, but closely based on a lost bronze original Resting Herakles by Lysippos (c. 350-300 BCE).<br \/>\n2. Seated Philosopher Statuette (now in the British Museum: BM GR 1865.7-12.1, = Bronze 848.): a<br \/>\nmodest-sized bronze statuette, either a Hellenistic original or a Roman version of the 1st c. CE.<br \/>\nIllustrations:<br \/>\nHerakles: Stewart, AHW p. 115, fig. 63<br \/>\nSome other views:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/ancientrome.ru\/art\/artworken\/img.htm?id=6567<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/ancientrome.ru\/art\/artworken\/img.htm?id=6565<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erint\/227767843\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/77\/227767843_0b8e171d4f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Farnese Hercules\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSeated Philosopher: Stewart, AHW p. 142, fig. 79<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collectionimages\/AN00187\/AN00187505_001_m.jpg<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/publishing.cdlib.org\/ucpressebooks\/data\/13030\/b0\/ft3f59n8b0\/figures\/ft3f59n8b0 00059.jpg https:\/\/publishing.cdlib.org\/ucpressebooks\/data\/13030\/b0\/ft3f59n8b0\/figures\/ft3f59n8b0_00060.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. to observe closely and to describe clearly the visual characteristics of two works of art. 2. to imagine and describe how these characteristics affect (or might affect) a viewer&#8217;s experience of each work of art. 3. to identify and describe clearly similarities and differences between the two works. 4. to enjoy doing this! The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[130],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}