Talk:Lansdowne Heracles

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The Lansdowne Heracles is a Roman marble sculpture dating from about 125 CE. It represents the hero Heracles as a beardless youth grasping the skin of the Nemean lion with his club upon his shoulder. The statue was discovered in 1790 on the site of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, and is now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa in Malibu, California.

Sculpture credit: unknown; photographed by the J. Paul Getty Museum

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The article indicates that the sculpture was found in fragmentary form and that (probably) Carlo Albacini completed the statue's missing parts, mentioning the nose, forearm, fingers, etc., but makes no mention of the penis. Did he not craft a penis because it was believed that the original didn't have one, or to comply with the sensibilities of the day? Alternatively, did the original restorations include a penis, and it was not included in the second restoration when the originals were replaced with an epoxy resin? Whatever the explanation for its absence, it should be noted in the article. DOSGuy (talk) 20:38, 5 March 2021 (UTC)Reply