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Antinous-Dionysus (Hermitage), the Glossary

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The Bust of Antinous-Dionysus in the Hermitage is an ancient Roman colossal marble sculptural portrait of Antinous, the favorite and beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Alexander II of Russia, Antinous, Dionysus, Giampietro Campana, Hadrian, Hadrian's Villa, Hermitage Museum, Marble sculpture, Roman emperor, Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union, Tivoli, Lazio.

  2. 19th-century archaeological discoveries
  3. 2nd-century Roman sculptures
  4. Alexander II of Russia
  5. Marble sculptures in Russia
  6. Sculptures in the Hermitage Museum
  7. Sculptures of Antinous

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (p; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881.

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Antinous

Antinous, also called Antinoös, (Ἀντίνοος; –) was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

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Dionysus

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Διόνυσος) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

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Giampietro Campana

Giampietro Campana (1808 – 10 October 1880), created marchese di Cavelli (1849), was an Italian art collector who assembled one of the nineteenth century's greatest collection of Greek and Roman sculpture and antiquities.

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Hadrian

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

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Hadrian's Villa

Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana; Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villa complex built around AD 120 by Roman emperor Hadrian near Tivoli outside Rome.

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Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum (p) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Marble sculpture

Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before refracting it in subsurface scattering.

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Roman emperor

The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Tivoli, Lazio

Tivoli (Tibur) is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy, north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills.

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See also

19th-century archaeological discoveries

2nd-century Roman sculptures

Alexander II of Russia

Marble sculptures in Russia

Sculptures in the Hermitage Museum

Sculptures of Antinous

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinous-Dionysus_(Hermitage)