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The original Hercules Farnese (Ercole Farnese) is a marble sculpture presumably from the 3rd century AD, by the Athenian sculptor Glykon. It is the most famous copy of a lost original in bronze attributed to Lysippus, a sculptor of the 4th century BC. It was found in 1546 at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome and immediately became part of the collection of...