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Analysis Of The Hope Herakles
The Hope Herakles (Hercules) represents the full body of Herakles. He is a Greek god, to the Romans he is known as Hercules. Herakles is Zeus’ son. The present location of the piece is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The sculpture is a Roman original, which copies a Greek original. In the sculpture he is depicted in the nude. It is a type of sculpture known as a kouros (male), characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward. It exhibits historic attributes of the Greek and expresses the Greeks view of ideal beauty. He looks calm, yet strong.
The work is made out of marble, the color is continuous throughout the sculpture, and it is white or off-white. The sculpture had been broken off, there are missing parts in
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