Antinous Mondragone

c. 130 CE

White marble, height 95 cm

Paris, Louvre

The Antinous Mondragone is a unique and colossal 0.95m high marble example of the iconographic type of the deified Antinous, of c.130 CE. It was part of the Borghese collection and was displayed at their Villa Mondragone near Rome in the early 19th century, until it was bought by Napoleon in 1807. It is now held at the Louvre Museum. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (600x772, 92 KB) Description For an old picture of the same, in b/w, see below: Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Antinous Roman art Metadata... For other uses, see number 130. ... The Common Era (CE or C.E.), sometimes known as the Current Era or Christian Era, is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 (the traditional birthdate of Jesus) to the present. ... A centimetre (US: centimeter) is a factor of the SI unit of length: there are one hundred centimeters in the base unit of measure, the metre. ...   City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area... The Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is one of the largest, oldest, most important and famous art galleries and museums in the world. ... Apotheosis means glorification, usually to a divine level, coming from the Greek word apotheoun, to deify. ... Antinous or Antinoös (Greek: ) born circa 110 or 111 CE, died 130 CE), was the lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian Bust of Antinous in the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome // Biography He was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in... For other uses, see number 130. ... The Common Era (CE or C.E.), sometimes known as the Current Era or Christian Era, is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 (the traditional birthdate of Jesus) to the present. ... Villa Mondragone is one of Villas in the Frascati territory. ... 1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The main courtyard of the Louvre. ...

It formed part of a acrolithic cult statue for the worship of Antinous as a god. It has drill holes for the attachment of a head-dress (possibly a lotus flower or uraeus) in metal, and has also lost eyes in metal. In the practice of religion, a cult image is a man-made object that is venerated for the spirit or daemon that it embodies. ... Lotus berthelotii, Trailing Lotus Nelumbo lutea, the American Lotus The term lotus has a variety of uses. ... The Uraeus (plural Uraei or Uraeuses) is a stylised upright cobra (or snake / serpent), used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt. ...

External links

• Louvre database entry