When we visit museums of ancient art, we usually admire marble or bronze sculptures depicting beautiful figures – gods, goddesses, heroes, warriors, nymphs, etc. The art of those times is associated with the cult of the beauty of the human body, youth, harmonious proportions, classic beauty, well-groomed muscles. e.t.c.<\/p>\n
But that’s not entirely true. The ancient Greeks and Romans, just like us, were aware of the transience of beauty and the aging of the human body.<\/p>\n
That’s why today Hercules: not the Farnesian type, not the strong and muscular one like Pudzian. Here, Hercules is already fat, has a slightly chubby face and generally looks “under-daddy”. It is clear at first glance that our hero’s best years and the famous “twelve labors” are long behind him. The Nemean Lion’s skin fits slightly over a belly worthy of a Pooh Bear. The body bent into an arch, transferring all its weight to the right leg, the left leg bent at the knee, the proudly outstretched chest – all this invariably reminds me of the attitude of Greek athletes immortalized by Lysippus and other chisel masters (think of the statue of Apoxyomenos). Maybe this is a deliberate joke by the sculptor? Or perhaps the elderly Hercules – nonchalantly looking into the distance and proudly carrying on his back the proof of his glorious past and great achievements – is proof of the ancient people’s distance from themselves, respect for old age, and, above all, humility towards the passing of time, which even a demigod cannot overcome. oppose?<\/p>\n
The sculpture in the photo is a Roman copy from the 2nd century CE, based on a Greek original, probably from the 2nd or 3rd century BCE. You can see it in the Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme museum in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":135673,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-135677","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/135677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/135677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=135677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}