This very 21st-century plaster cast, together with both ancient works-the Art Institute’s face and the Altemps’s bust-and additional information present new and intriguing stories about these sculptures and the fascinating subject they depict. Laser scanning and three-dimensional printing were used to produce a mold from which the plaster replica was created. When Antinous drowned in the Nile in 130 AD (whether it. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a reconstruction of the original statue combining the two parts, showing how the statue would have appeared in antiquity. The young man with the almond eyes, tousled hair, aquiline nose, and pouting lips was the companion and lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Antinous was then sent to Rome to be educated. Beguiled by his beauty, Hadrian immediately admitted him to the imperial court. Hadrian came across Antinous while he was on a trip to Bithynia. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets. Antinous was a Bithynian Greek man, best remembered as Roman emperor Hadrian’s homosexual lover. (That bust received a replacement face by the mid-18th century.) Tengami (c) Nyamyam Release Date : 15th January, 2015 Protection : Steam Type : Adventure, Casual, Indie Size : 1 Disc Description: About This Game Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. The attributes allow the statue to be interpreted as Agathos Daimon (Agathodaemon protective spirit). Antinous was considered Hadrian’s favorite by 128 AD, and was taken on a tour of the Roman Empire as a member of Hadrians’ personal party. It’s unlikely that Hadrian believed his deceased love was a god, but it made sense to create a cult as it ensured a group of people was personally and politically loyal to him. The portrait depicts the Roman Emperor Hadrian 's lover, Antinous, depicted with a snake and cornucopia. In October 130, Hadrian announced that Antinous was a god and proclaimed his intention to create a city in honor of his lover it was called Antinoopolis. Antinous is said to have drowned in the Nile River in 130 BCE. After years of careful study, an international collaboration among the Art Institute of Chicago, the Palazzo Altemps Museum in Rome, and the University of Chicago determined that the Art Institute’s fragment of a portrait of Antinous was originally the face of the Altemps’s bust. The head and the statue are ancient but were combined as recently as the 18th century. One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience. This focused exhibition unites two marbles portraying Antinous-which recent discoveries reveal were originally one. Quotes tagged as 'antinous' Showing 1-2 of 2.
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