Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Hercules and the Nemean Lion - relief
CensusID: 157888
Location
Roma, Villa Medici
Inventory no. Cagiano de Azevedo 1951, no. 49; Huelsen / Egger 19131916, no. 17; Michaelis 1891 (Skizzenbuecher), no. 31
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
sculpture
relief
marble
damaged/fragmentary
restored
Original
no
Number
01
Descriptive Details units, 2
figure, 1
male
nude
headband
fighting agains lion
animal, 1
lion
Hercules
Herakles
Nemean Lion
club
trees
Dimensions
heigth: 0,90 m
length: 1,12 m
History
Date of Creation
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
Condition when first known
Reason
Documentation
Preservation Event(s)
1st half of 3rd cent.
unknown
damaged/fragmentary
happened to be around
Berlin, SBBPK: > Codex Pighianus > fol. 033 v > A (Census)
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
post 1550-ante 1584
Location Roma, Collection of Camillo Capranica
Documentation:
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 217.B - p. 221.A > p. 220.C (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 217.B - p. 221.A > p. 220.C (Census)
Berlin, SBBPK: > Codex Pighianus > fol. 033 v > A (Census)
Cambridge, Trinity Coll.: > Cambridge Sketchbook > fol. 32 (Census)
Roma, Archivio di Stato: > Inventario delle statue del Palazzo della
Valle > no. 13 (Census)
Date
post 1584
Location Roma, Villa Medici
Documentation:
Roma, Archivio di Stato: > Inventario delle statue del Palazzo della
Valle > no. 13 (Census)
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Relationships
Census Document(s):
London, V & A: > inv. A 13-1952
London, BM, P&D: > inv. 1901-6-19-2 r > B
London, BM, P&D: > Aspertini Skb. I > fol. 48 v > B
Berlin, SBBPK: > Codex Pighianus > fol. 033 v > A
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 217.B - p. 221.A > p. 220.C
Cambridge, Trinity Coll.: > Cambridge Sketchbook > fol. 32
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 217.B - p. 221.A > p. 220.C
Roma, Archivio di Stato: > Inventario delle statue del Palazzo della Valle > no. 13
> Vaccarius 1621 > no. 67
> Bartsch, vol. XII, p. 119, no. 17 (II)
> Bartsch, vol. XII, p. 120, no. 18
References
Bibliography:
> Cagiano de Azevedo, Michelangelo: Le Antichita di Villa Medici, Roma 1951 > pp. 65-66, no. 49
> Matz, Friedrich & Duhn, Friedrich von: Antike Bildwerke in Rom mit Ausschluss der groesseren
Sammlungen, I-III, Leipzig 1881-1882 > vol. III, pp. 55-56, no. 3560
> Hülsen, Christian & Egger, Hermann: Die römischen Skizzenb​ücher von Marten van Heemskerck im
Königlichen Kupferstichkabinett zu Berlin, I-II, Berlin 1913-1916 > vol. II, p. 59, no. 17
> Reinach, Salomon: L'album de Pierre Jacques sculpteur de Reims. Dessins a Rome de 1572 a
1577, I-II, Paris 1902 > p. 58, note 16
> Michaelis, Adolf: Roemische Skizzenbuecher Marten van Heemskerks und anderer nordischer
Kuenstler des XVI. Jahrhunderts, I-II, in: Jahr- buecher des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen
Instituts VI, 1891, pp. 125-172 and 218-238 > p. 229, no. 31
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