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The Antinous Mondragone is a 0.95-meter marble head of the deified Antinous, carved between 130 and 138 AD during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. It belongs to the Mondragone type of Antinous cult statues, identified by a Dionysiac hairstyle. It is now held at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Antinous was a young man from Bithynium in Bithynia and the lover of Emperor Hadrian. After his death in 130 AD, widely believed to have been a drowning in the Nile, Hadrian's grief gave rise to a religious cult that worshipped Antinous as a god. That cult proved more lively and enduring than Hadrian's own imperial cult and spread across the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian worlds.
The Antinous Mondragone is believed to have been found near Tusculum, at Frascati, between 1713 and 1729. However, the Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger recorded seeing it at Villa Mondragone in 1687, decades before the accepted discovery date, and the two accounts have not been fully reconciled.
In 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte purchased the Antinous Mondragone as part of a large sale of the Borghese collections. Among all the pieces sold in that transaction, the head commanded one of the highest prices.
Antinous art is classified into three types: the Main type, the Egyptianizing type, and the Mondragone type. The Main type has two variants, A and B, differentiated by the arrangement of locks on the forehead. The Mondragone type, to which the Antinous Mondragone belongs, is defined by a hairstyle referencing the Greek god Dionysus.
Johann Winckelmann called it "the glory and crown of art in this age as well as in others" and described it as "so immaculate that it appears to have come fresh out of the hands of the artist." He praised it in his History of Ancient Art because it echoed the 5th-century BC Greek sculptural style he favored above Roman art.