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The Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli ('''Naples National Archaeological Museum''') is located in Naples, Italy . It contains a large collection of Roman Artifact s from Pompeii and Herculaneum . The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek , Roman and Renaissance times. Some of the pieces were collected by Cosimo De' Medici and Lorenzo Il Magnifico in the 15th Century .

Among the notable works found in the museum are:

  • The Farnese Hercules , who fixed the image of Hercules in the European imagination.

  • The Farnese Atlas is the oldest extant depiction of Atlas from Greek mythology, and the oldest view of the Western constellations, possibly based upon the Star Catalog of Hipparchus

  • The Farnese Bull is another of the famous Farnese Marbles . It is widely consisidered the largest single sculpture ever recovered from Antiquity .

  • The Farnese Cup is the most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent"; it is a bowl made of sardonyx Agate .

  • The Secret Cabinet , a separately housed collection of erotic Roman art.

  • The old nude man who, on the palm of his hand, holds a little silver tray.



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