Antinous - Antinous in Roman Sculpture

Antinous in Roman Sculpture

Hadrian "turned to to perpetuate the melancholy beauty, diffident manner, and lithe and sensuous frame of his boyfriend Antinous," creating in the process what has been described as "the last independent creation of Greco-Roman art". It is traditionally assumed that they were all produced between Antinous' death in 130 and that of Hadrian in 138, on the grounds that no-one else would be interested in commissioning them. The assumption is that official models were sent out to provincial workshops all over the empire to be copied, with local variations permitted.

• As Bacchus, Vatican

• As Bacchus, Vatican

• from Delphi

• Antinous Mondragone at the Louvre Museum

• Antinous Ecouen, from Villa Adriana at Tivoli

• Bust of Antinous in the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome.

• Vatican Museums, colossal bust, from Villa Adriana

• As Bacchus, Capitoline Museums

• The Antinous Braschi type (Louvre)

• Antinous as a priest of the imperial cult (Louvre)

• Antinous Farnese, Naples National Archaeological Museum

• Capitoline Antinous, Capitoline Museums, from the Villa Adriana

• Villa Albani relief from the Torlonia collection, Rome

• Relief, as Sylvanus, National Museum of Rome

• Antinous as Osiris

• Head (the bust is modern), Antikensammlung Berlin

• Egyptianizing statue of Antinoos, National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

• Antinous as Osiris, found in the ruins of Hadrian's villa during the 18th century