The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century CE Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe. Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period , it is the oldest extant statue of Atlas , a Titan of Greek mythology who is represented in earlier Greek vase painting , and the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere ...

The Farnese Atlas is a Roman statue depicting the Titan Atlas holding up a celestial globe that displays an accurate representation of the ancient Greek constellations (see Figures 1 and 2). This is the oldest surviving depiction of this set of the original Western constellations, and as such can be a valuable resource for studying their early ...

法爾內塞的阿特拉斯（英語： Farnese Atlas ）是公元2世纪的羅馬大理石雕像，刻畫了舉著天球的阿特拉斯。 這座雕像可能仿製了更早之前的 希臘化時期 作品，是現存最古老的阿特拉斯雕像。

2016年9月29日 · Named the Farnese Atlas after its collectors ‘ the wealthy Italian Farnese family whose status included cardinals and popes with boundless appetites for antiquity ‘ and its subject, the sculpture is believed to be a 2nd century CE Roman copy of a Greek sculpture. At just over 7 feet tall, the sculpture’s scale expresses the immense size ...

2024年10月21日 · Of all the sculptural representations of the mythological Titan Atlas made during Greco-Roman times, the oldest surviving one is the Farnese Atlas. It is a Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic original, made in the 2nd century AD (around the year 150), and is now housed in the Naples Archaeological Museum.

The Farnese Atlas is an ancient Roman sculpture that depicts the Greek Titan Atlas. This statue is one of the oldest known representations of the celestial sphere. It is housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and is a key artifact for historians, astronomers, and art …

The so-called Farnese Atlas, currently located in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is a Roman statue of a crouching male figure supporting a celestial globe, decorated with bas-relief

The Farnese collection at the Naples National Archaeological Museum is one of the finest collections of objects of Roman antiquity in the world. It is named for cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), notable collector and patron of the arts.

The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of Atlas kneeling with the celestial spheres, not a globe, weighing heavily on his shoulders. It is the oldest extant statue of the Titan of Greek mythology, who is represented in earlier vase-painting, and more importantly, the oldest known representation of the ...

The Farnese Atlas is a Roman statue of a crouching male figure supporting a celestial globe decorated with bas-relief figures of the constellations 3on his back [figure 1]. Despite the wealth of subsequent scholarly