Focus on Farnese Hercules and explain the List of other ancient copies.
The prominently sited statue was well liked by the Ancient Romans, and copies have been found in Roman palaces and gymnasiums: another, coarser copy stood in the courtyard of Palazzo Farnese; one with the feigned (but probably ancient) inscription "Lykippos" has stood in the court of Palazzo Pitti, Florence, since the sixteenth century. Ancient copies of the statue include:Hercules, 2nd century AD, Roman copy, Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
The "Weary Herakles" is a heavily broken Roman marble statue that was excavated in 1980 in Perge, Turkey. The looted upper torso was sold to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1981. The upper torso was returned to Turkey in 2011 and is now displayed with the rest of the piece at the Antalya Museum.
Colossal statue of Hercules, uncovered at the baths in Hippo Regius (Annaba), Algeria.
Resting Herakles, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.
Heracles of Antikythera; badly damaged late Hellenistic Parian marble headless statue, recovered from the Antikythera Shipwreck in 1901 Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
Headless statue at Izmit Archaeology and Ethnography Museum.
Broken headless torso found in the bathhouse Roman & Byzantine village in the Jezreel valley.
Broken headless torso from the Amphiareion of Oropos, Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
Broken headless torso of 2nd or 3rd century AD, in Museum of Saint-Raymond in Toulouse.
Statuette of 2nd century AD, in Detroit Institute of Arts.
Bronze statuette with silver-inlaid eyes of 40–70 AD, Getty Villa.
Uffizi National Archaeological Museum Antalya Museum Bronze Palazzo Farnese Perge Hercules Heracles Florence Uffizi Gallery Antikythera Shipwreck Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Athens Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Getty Villa Palazzo Pitti Heracles of Antikythera