Portrait of Antinous

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This bust of Antinous is a plaster copy of an original marble sculpture located in the Pio Clementino collection of The Vatican Museums (Inv. 251). It is presented next to the deified full figure Baschai Antinous which was made posthumously. The portrait features Antinous' charactaristic fleshy, youthful beauty with particularly 'severe' corkscrew curls, a common style of his idealized likeness. The peculiar features of this bust have led many to propose it as a 'true' portrait of Antinous, though this has been debated on the ground that the treatment of the hair better corresponds to divinity than a human being. Many versions of this bust still remain (see Vatican No.636, Vienna Kunsthistorisches No.1.91 and Antiken Sammlung No.60/SK364). The back is not faithful to that on the original marble bust due to its position when digitizing.   If you produce new work with the model and want to share it with us, drop us a line at web@smk.dk or stw@myminifactory.com. This scan was produced in collaboration between The Statens Museum for Kunst and Scan the World for the SMK-Open project. Every model produced from this initiative is available under an open source license. Scanner - Artec Eva