The drawing by giuseppe bottani shows a late hadrianic relief (around 130 ad) depicting antinous in the villa albani, today torlonia. Antinous, the lover of the roman emperor hadrian (117-138 ad), was deified after his tragic death on the initiative of the emperor and immortalized in countless portraits. This includes the relief found near the villa hadriana in 1734, which documents the still unresolved state in giuseppe bottani's (1717-1784) drawing. The relief came into the possession of cardinal alessandro albani and was thus available to winckelmann as an object of study. Winckelmann's own portrait with a turban by anton von maron then shows the scholar with a graphic representation of the relief. Winckelmann considered the work of art "the honor and crown of the art of this and of all times. " he correctly dated it to the hadrianic period, ultimately based on classical greek models. Gift from dr. Wolfgang von wangenheim. Date: 1735.
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