“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety.“
-Enobarbus, 2.2
Psyché Revived by Cupid’s Kiss,
1787 - 1793.
Antinous
“Turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image.
His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”
Athena & Hercules
By Daniel Arsham, from the artist’s exhibition ‘Moonraker’.
Galerie Perrotin & Musée Guimet.
Antinous as Vertumnus
Found in Ostia in the late 1700s. Now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
Cupid & Psyche
“Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori.”
“Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to love.”
Venus de Milo
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
Head of Antinous
Discovered in 1878 in Cairo. Date: AD 130-138.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
The Three Graces
“From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world.”
Antinous
Roman marble. Early 2nd century CE.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin.