The Belvedere Antinous
Italian School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1701 - 1730
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
515 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 731853
Summary
Bronze sculpture, The Belvedere Antinous, Italian School, early 18th century. Full-length figure of a youth, against a stump, with cloak over left shoulder, square base. The known copies are considered to be by Praxiteles but is probably a Hadrianic copy of a bronze original possily by one of his pupils, now in the Vatican Museum in the Belveder courtyard.
Makers and roles
Italian School, sculptor
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 4