Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait Head of Antinous
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- Date
- about 130-138
- Medium
- Marble
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 13852
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This portrait depicts Antinous (about 111–130), the young lover of Emperor Hadrian (reigned 117–38). His characteristic facial features include an oval face, smooth complexion, almond-shaped eyes, and full lips, as well as his distinctive hairstyle of thick, wavy locks radiating from the crown of his head. This sculpture is a fragment from a larger whole, and for many years it was unclear what form the original, intact work had taken. Recent scholarship indicates that it once belonged to an over-life-size bust of Antinous currently in the Palazzo Altemps in Rome.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
- Provenance
- Attilio Simonetti (1843-1925), Rome; sold to Charles L. Hutchinson (1854-1924), Chicago, 1898 [receipt in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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