Antinous Mondragone
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| Antinous Mondragone |
| c. 130 CE |
| White marble, height 95 cm |
| Paris, Louvre |
The Antinous Mondragone is a unique and colossal 0.95m high marble example of the iconographic type of the deified Antinous, of c.130 CE. It was part of the Borghese collection and was displayed at their Villa Mondragone near Rome in the early 19th century, until it was bought by Napoleon in 1807. It is now held at the Louvre Museum.
It formed part of a acrolithic cult statue for the worship of Antinous as a god. It has drill holes for the attachment of a head-dress (possibly a lotus flower or uraeus) in metal, and has also lost eyes in metal.
