Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
A pencil drawing (50cm x 35cm) of the colossal statue of Hercules by Italian sculptor Silvio Canevari, in The Stadio dei Marmi (Stadium of Marbles) in the Foro Italico.
Created in 1931, this was one of the first statues to be dedicated in the Foro Italico. Donated by the Province of Rome.
Canevari produced another five statues for the Foro : another Hercules, a Victorious Boxer, an Archer, a David and the Oarsman.
Inspired by the Roman forums of the imperial age, The Foro Italico was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini's Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti.
The Stadio dei Marmi is lined with 59 (originally 60) colossal statues, which portray a range of sporting disciplines. Each statue was the gift of one of the provinces of Italy.
Hercules (Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, Glory/Pride of Hēra), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs) was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon. He was a great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus.
He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι), and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters.
