Capitoline Antinous
The Capitoline 'Antinous' is a marble statue of a young nude male found at
In part due to its hair being unlike that in better-attested Antinous-types, which closely follow a very few iconographic models, it is now considered[6] to be a Roman Imperial era copy of an early 4th century BC Greek statue of Hermes. Such a change of identification was already underway before 1900, when Augustus Hare observed in his Walks in Rome that:
[the statue's] identity has only once, I think, been seriously challenged; and yet it may be reckoned more than doubtful. The head is almost certainly not [Antinous's]. How it came to be placed upon a body presenting so much resemblance to the type of Antinous, I do not know. Careful comparison of the torso and the arms will even raise the question whether this fine statue is not a Hermes or a hero of an earlier age [than Antinous].[7]
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References
- ^ This provenance from the Museo Capitolino, o sia descrizione delle statue (Rome 1750), compiled by Giovanni Pietro Lucatelli, is noted in Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press) 1981:143.
- ^ As early as 1724, Conte Giuseppe Fede had been buying up parcels of land in the extensive villa, which had become divided up among a multitude of owners; for the early career and reputation of the Capitoline 'Antinous' , see Haskell and Penny 1981: cat. no 5, pp 143f, and passim
- ^ When it was inventoried in Cardinal Albani's collection by the sculptor Agostino Cornacchini, who rated it priceless and worthy of ranking with the best antiquities (noted Haskell and Penny 1981:144.
- ^ Haskell and Penny's phrase, (1981:64) based on contemporary accounts, published and private.
- ^ Haskell and Penny 1981:143.
- ^ E.g. in Wolfgang Helbig, Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümen in Rom 1963-72, II:230f.
- ^ A.J.C. Hare, Walks in Rome (1900), also cited in Familiar Allusions
- Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome, page 80