Hercules, weary after his labours, leans heavily on his club, draped with the skin of the Nemean lion. This colossal marble, signed by the Athenian Glykon, was made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome after a lost 4th-century BCE bronze by Lysippos or his circle. Dug up in 1546, it fixed the image of the hero for European art.
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Walk round the back: in his right hand, hidden behind him, Hercules holds the golden apples of the Hesperides, the prize of one of his last labours.
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