Antinoüs of the View-point

The Antinoüs of the View-point , also known like the Lantin , is a statue in Marbre, Roman copy of a Greek original, interpreted a long time like a representation of Antinoüs, from now on recognized like a Hermes of the Andros-Farnèse type. It is currently preserved at the Musée Pio-Clementino under the number of inventory 907.

History

Discovered with Rome close to the Castle Saint-Angel, old Mausoleum of the emperor Hadrian, the statue is taken for a representation of the favorite of this last, Antinoüs. In 1543, Paul III becomes from there purchaser for his collections and installs it in the court of the sculptures of the palate of the View-point, which contains already famous works like the Groupe of Laocoon or the Apollon of the View-point.

The statue knows a large celebrity quickly: Poussin sees the gun there ideal proportions and in 1683, Gerard Audran includes it in his collection of the Proportions of the human body measured on the most beautiful figures of Antiquity , intended for the young sculptors. It is the subject of many mouldings: a bronze copy melted by Hubert Sweat figure in the collections Charles I {{er}} of England before being repurchased by Cromwell; another, drawn by the Keller brothers, joined the collection of Louis XIV; a marble copy will be also bought by Pierre Large the. One also finds of them mouldings in the academies of art, like those of Milan and Berlin.

Winckelmann recognizes it like a statue “of first class” and much the head admires some, “without question one of the most beautiful heads of young man of Antiquity”, even if he criticizes the work of the feet, the belly and the legs. At its time, the identification with Antinoüs is already rejected like false, and the statue is interpreted like a Méléagre, hero of hunting for the Sanglier of Calydon. It will be finally identified with a Hermes by the scholar Ennio Quirino Visconti (1818-1822).

Description

The statue, high of 1,95 meter, represents a young person as a naked man carrying a coat on the shoulder and the left front armlever. She is recognized like an alternative of the Andros type (or Andros-Farnèse), whose specimen éponyme comprises, in addition to the coat, a snake climbing along the main shaft: the two attributes allow an identification without ambiguity Hermes in its funerary role of Psychopompe (conducting of the hearts). The type is located in the direct influence of the Hermes carrying Dionysos child.

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