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Friday, August 3, 2012

L'ANTINOO del Campidoglio -- MERCURIO -- fund in 1723 in Villa Adriana.

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Portrait of a youth as MERCURIO.
  • Height: 1.90m.
  • marble statue.
  • The statue:
    • is a 2nd century AD version of a 4th century BC original.
    • was found in 1723, in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli.
    • was formerly in the Albani collection, inv. D8., then in Museo Capitolino from about 1734 (first in the Salone; from 1776 in the Sala de Hercules).
    • was removed to Paris in 1797 and returned to Rome in 1816.
    • has since been in Rome, Museo Capitolino, Sala del Gallo Moriente, inv. 741.

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