Between 1493 and 1494 he bought a block of marble for a larger than life statue of Hercules, which was sent to France and subsequently disappeared sometime circa 18th century.

Cicero writes that the lips and beard of the famous statue of Hercules at Agrigentum were worn away by the kisses of devotees.

Important examples include a piece on Pollius ' temple to Hercules ( 3. 1 ), the aetiology of the tree at Atedius ' villa ( 2. 3 ), an antique statue of Lysippus ' Heracles ( 4. 6 ) and a description of Pollius ' villa at Surrentum ( 2. 2 ).

The association of white poplar leaves with Herakles is also attested by archaeological remains, such as the poplar-leaf motif carved on a statue base found in a small sanctuary to Herakles ( Roman Hercules ) along the Tiber river.

Other statues that Lord Burlington had made for the gardens included a wolf, a boar, a goat, a lion and lioness, a statue of the Roman god Mercury, a gladiator, Hercules, and Cain and Abel.

The temple's statue of Zeus comes to life and reveals all to Hercules, telling him that he can regain his godhood by becoming a " true hero ".

On the first occasion of summoning Hera's help, she guides Jason to the Isle of Bronze and warns him to take nothing but provisions ; but exploring the island, Hercules steals a brooch pin the size of a javelin from a treasure chamber surmounted by a statue of Talos, which comes to life and attacks the Argo.

* Sala Rotonda: shaped like a miniature Pantheon, the room has impressive ancient mosaics on the floors, and ancient statues lining the perimeter, including a gilded bronze statue of Hercules.

In 1806, a Roman hexagonal altar dedicated to Claudia Martina by her husband, now in the Guildhall, was found here together with a statue of Hercules.

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The Farnese Hercules is a massive and muscular marble statue, following a lost original cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting.

Against the walls the archeologist Henri Roman discovered six altars to Hercules, and the torso of a large statue of Hercules, 1. 3 meters high, holding a vase of water, evidently the water of the Glanum spring.

This statue of Hercules slaying the Hydra of Lerna was originally in the castle of Vaudreuil, and is now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

Inserted within a rounded-arch is a falls, adorned by a statue of Hercules.

A large statue of Breogán has been erected near the Tower of Hercules.

Apart from the imperial busts and the statue of Louis XVI, other important works included the quadriga of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the statue of Hercules fighting Acheloos transformed into a snake ( illustration ) in the Louvre.

Before the battle, Eugenius and Arbogast placed a statue of Jupiter on the edge of the battlefield, and had applied images of Hercules on the army banners.

They hide their dwarf friend under the statue of Zeus and he tells Hercules that in order to marry Omphale he must battle with the most powerful man in the world: Samson.

Hercules statue at Ballarat Botanical Garden

The statue was placed in the square fronted by the cathedral.

There, a new robe of woven wool ( peplos ) was placed on either the statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheum ( during a regular Panathenaea ) or on the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon ( during the Great Panathenaea, held every four years ).

The statue ’ s foot was placed on the throat of the Hydra, which represented the tyranny of federalism which the new Republic had vanquished.

He tells how Ptolemy " placed in a circle around the statue Homer all the cities who laid claim to Homer " and mentions a painting of the poet by the artist Galaton, which apparently depicted Homer in the aspect of Oceanus as the source of all poetry.

He was granted further honors, which were later used to justify his assassination as a would-be divine monarch ; coins were issued bearing his image and his statue was placed next to those of the kings.

A bronze statue of a group of soldiers and an American flag was placed off to one side of the monument as a result.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Millard F. Malin's angel, which was placed on the Los Angeles California Temple in 1953 ( dedicated 1956 ) is known as the second Angel Moroni statue.

Avard Fairbanks sculpted the third Angel Moroni statue which was placed on the Washington D. C. Temple, dedicated in 1974.

A statue of Sir Francis Drake by Joseph Boehm ( a copy of the original in his home town of Tavistock ) was placed here in 1884 to commemorate him.

In 1887, Charles Henry Niehaus sculpted a statue of Allen to be placed in the National Statuary Hall.

* Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the temple in Jerusalem.

Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.

In the Temple built within the citadel, a scarab of Queen Tiye of Egypt, who was married to Amenhotep III, was placed in the Room of the Idols alongside at least one statue of either LHIIIA: 2 or B: 1 type.

A 10-foot bronze replica of the original Iron Felix statue was placed on the grounds of the military academy in Minsk, Belarus in May 2006.

A statue of the sleeping Ogier has been placed in the castle.

A statue of Patton was placed on the grounds of the church.

A bronze statue of Stratton by Nellie Walker was placed on the grounds of his estate in 1909.

After his death a statue was placed at his home in Rotterdam

On 13 October 1995, Queen Sonja of Norway visited the Norwegian Lady statue in Virginia Beach, and placed memorial flowers.

Though the Macedonians did not consider Philip a god, he did receive other forms of recognition by the Greeks, such as at Eresos ( altar to Zeus Philippeios ), Ephesos ( his statue was placed in the temple of Artemis ), and Olympia, where the Philippeion was built.

They placed their children alive in the arms of a bronze statue of:

To the west, the completion of the Arc de Triomphe in 1836 on the Place de l ' Étoile at the western end of the Champs Élysées formed the far point of this line of perspective, which now starts at the equestrian statue of Louis XIV placed by I. M.