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Although the men in the portrait are traditionally identified as brothers, there is speculation that they were lovers, the reason for this being that behind the beardless figure is a representation of Antinous-Osiris, the only pictorial representation that has survived of a statue of the deified young man.
The Bust of Antinous-Dionysus in the Hermitage is an ancient Roman colossal marble sculptural portrait of Antinous, the favorite and beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian. He is depicted as the god Dionysus with a bronze vine wreath on his head. The bust is believed to have been found at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.
The bust of Antinous in the White Hall of the Great Gatchina Palace is an ancient Roman marble sculptural portrait of Antinous, the favorite and beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The bust was created after the tragic death of the young man in 130 as one of many similar portraits as part of his posthumous cult. he sculpture was found by ...
This statue shows Hadrian naked. This nakedness, originally a Greek style, showed that the emperor was heroic and almost god-like. Bust of Antinous From Rome, Italy AD 130-140 The presence of an ivy wreath in this portrait links Antinous to the god Dionysus, the closest Greek equivalent to the Egyptian god Osiris.
The bust of Antinous (Greek: Προτομή του Αντίνοου) in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens in Greece is an ancient Roman sculptural portrait of the young Antinous, the favorite and beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian. It was discovered in the city of Patras in the nineteenth century. [1]
It was a temple dedicated to Antinous, lover of the emperor and deified by him after his premature death. Inside the complex, fragments of black marble statues were found, relating to Egyptian divinities or figures of priests which would confirm that this was the temple of the god Osiris-Antinous.
Room 12 contains Late Hellenistic and Roman objects, including a famous statue of Antinous. [4] (p 416) The main exhibit of the statue of Antinous, favorite of the emperor Hadrian; it is probably one of the best specimens of the depictions of the young man which were erected all over the Roman Empire after his untimely death under order of the ...
Antinous is a free standing marble sculpture in the round. The philhellenic elements of this statue are drawn from its visual style, while the Farnese Antinous was sculpted in the Roman period, Antinous emulates an athlete in the Classical Greek style. [8] Specifically, this sculpture is emulated after Polykleitos' statue Doryphoros.