# Portrait Head of Antinous

- By: Ancient Roman
- Date: about 130-138
- Medium: Marble
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 31.7 × 31 × 17 cm (12 1/2 × 12 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13852)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b3c824b5-b972-ad4d-11c1-61334741129e/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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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