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bronze head of Antinoos beloved of the Emperor Hadrian
£425.00
A beautiful bronze bust, based on an original full size marble statue of Antinoos, which was found in the temple of Apollo at Delphi and is now in the Archaeological Museum there. Height: 25cm, including his marble base
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about the bronzes in this collection
The bronze pieces are cast in Greece using the traditional lost wax method. As nothing is mass-produced, there will inevitably be slight variations in texture, patina, and colour. No two pieces are ever the same. If mounted on a marble base, it will be a black or very dark grey base. There may be a variation of some millimetres in the dimensions of the base from time to time. It's All Greek is so grateful and so proud to have been working closely with the Semitekolo family foundry since 1999. It has been a privilege and a joy to handle, live with, and photograph these gorgeous pieces and to pass them on to customers all over the world. |
about Antinoos
Born in Bithynia in 110 CE, Antinoos, also Antinous, was the favourite and lover of the Emperor Hadrian. He drowned in the Nile before his 20th birthday, in mysterious circumstances.
He was then deified by Hadrian, and was worshipped in both the Greek East and in the Latin West - sometimes as a god, sometimes merely as a hero. The worship of Antinoos proved to be one of the most popular cults of deified human beings in the Roman empire.
Images of the beautiful youth abound on coinage, in portraiture and in sculpture from the 2nd century CE onwards. Antinoos became a symbol of male homosexuality in western culture, appearing in the works of Oscar Wilde among others.