A Portrait of Antinous, In Two Parts

[@angeloargentieri5605]

Antinous bello, divino e immortale, la sua bellezza vivrà per sempre, è stato amato con passione dal grande imperatore Hadrian

[@FF-ch9nr]

THE ULTIMATE TWINK

[@etiennebrownlee4071]

Wow, incredible story. A puzzle solved by modern technology. I wonder if they attached the old piece afterwards, but personally, a 3d printed replica is enough to admire this beauty.

[@boruttrost5750]

I would have thought it would be possible to determin whether the two parts were made from the same block of stone.

[@marcelcatalan9644]

How Beauty causes so many works and researches !!!

[@brober]

Fascinating what new technology can restore.What is lost is found!

[@bobh5087]

This was fascinating. Thanks to everyone involved. 👍👏

[@1234smileface]

Absolutely fascinating

[@Alagueesia]

Fascinating !

[@u.mazzeru3327]

What an amazing discovery!

[@markwardel6751]

Amazing!

[@andersliljevall2946]

Hadrian - il sugar daddy immortale

[@FloridaClay]

Fascinating.

[@ottoan]

Fascinating how natural the sculpted hair from two thousand years ago looks compared to the "modern" stylized and disproportionate restoration.

[@leendaleendawhatsinmyagenda]

Modern restoration has to be that way You have to see that the lock of hair is not the original so you can have an image of the totality without compromising with the original. Modern restaurator mustn't substitute the original artis But it wasn't always like this: for example there have been a case on Greece where the restaurators completely replaced some columns and frescos so that tourists thought that those were the originals and that they have been conserved perfectly to these days (and that is a sorta of betray)

[@lesliea7394]

5 star presentation

[@jakesnack6778]

i want to be Antinous

[@gorgeous8821]

Same. Imagine someone who loves you that much. Can't relate

[@robvanloo7321]

Jake Snack I am

[@jhontolentino4266]

I want to be Antinous too, or either i want a boy who looks like him.🥺

[@GustavoHenrique-um2tj]

I want to be Hadrian

[@andersliljevall2946]

Amor vincit omnia. Love conquers everything

[@Rhombohedral]

A young version of Elvis but then more cute

[@deewesthill1213]

Was it gangs of Christians or Muslims or other dark age enemies of the arts that did the damage to these exquisitely beautiful sculptures?

[@velehatmecek2224]

I dont think it needed any will to damage nor evilness of christians or muslims. I suppose time is enough as an enemy.

[@erlinacobrado7947]

This notion of "dark ages", as an allegation against the Middle Ages is really historiographically reactionary and passé in the academic circles of historians. This is really an unhistorical idea that had its genesis in Renaissance artists has little basis.

[@deewesthill1213]

@@erlinacobrado7947 In my opinion it is an appropriate phrase for anyone who intentionally did such a thing. All those who hate and want to destroy or damage beautiful artwork are living in a cultural dark age.

[@richardfirsten2364]

A very interesting video about the artistic aspect of this bust, but I object very much to the narrator's description of Lord Antinous as a "character." The woman should learn to have more respect for the Cult of Antinous and for those who follow the Gay God, a god who was very popular in the Roman Empire and whose cult is now resurging, gaining more and more adherents. I also object to her off-the-cuff description of Antinous as "allegedly being Hadrian's lover." He indeed was Emperor Hadrian's lover and no stronger bond of two lovers could ever be found in the Ancient World or the Modern World. In short, this woman really needs to learn to have more respect.

[@christianfrommuslim]

Do you see Antinous as an actual "god" or as more of a mascot?

[@tomvalveede6808]

"One of the more important things about him was that he was ALLEGEDLY Hadrian's Lover." Sure, Hadrian Created a City and plastered the image of Any young Men he knew! No question of Liability for Defamation or Slander, so what is with the ALLEGEDLY??? Hadrian is recorded as having been Torn with Grief as a woman at the death of Antinuous, his Beautiful Lover. Enter into the 21st Century! Please!

[@Baslium]

they're good friend with huge age gap.

[@MrFalconford]

why did the colonists sever the head of antinous? and break the sculpture into pieces? personally jealousy is a curious form of cruelty and counting!

[@CurtisD01]

" colonists " fuck off with that shit....

[@geopoliticsnerd213]

christians, they destroyed many historic sculptures like agora , she didn’t married and Loved science and they hated her and burned her

[@oxnvatwakkopocalypse166]

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[@abbyalphonse499]

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