Raymond Johnson in 2013 discovered that the original face, held by the Art Institute in Chicago where the exhibition began, belonged to the original bust, held at Palazzo Altemps. “A Portrait of Antinous, in Two Parts” brings together the long-fragmented second century sculpture. Egyptologist W. Antinous was also frequently represented in sculpture not just as Osiris but sometimes as Apollo or Dionysus.Īn exhibition dedicated to Antinous in celebration of the reunited parts of a luminous marble portrait continues through mid-January at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. Images of Antinous, with his signature curly hairstyle, began to appear on coins and medallions, and the youth became the subject of numerous sculptures. Although it was not uncommon for his predecessors to have taken male lovers alongside a female spouse, Hadrian was unique in making his love official in a way that no other emperor had before him. Grief-stricken, the emperor declared antinous a god and founded the city Antinoupolis where Antinous was identified with the Egyptian god of death and resurrection, Osiris. The art that flourished during the reign of Hadrian (117-138) was replete with representations of antinous after the youth mysteriously drowned in the Nile River in 130 while accompanying Hadrian on a tour of Egypt. Antinous, the young man who became first the companion of the Emperor Hadrian and then a deity, was born 27 November 111 in Claudiopolis (present day Bolu, Turkey), in the Roman province of Bithynia.
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