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Antinous Mondragone
The Antinous Mondragone is a 0.95 m high marble example of the iconographic type of the deified Antinous, of c. 130 AD. It can be identified as him from the striated eyebrows, full lips, sombre expression and the head's twist down and to the right (reminiscent of that of the Lemnian Athena), whilst its smooth skin and elaborate, centre-parted hair mirror those of Hellenistic images of Dionysus and Apollo.
It formed part of a colossal acrolithic cult statue for the worship of Antinous as
Mondragon
Mondragon or Mondragón may refer to:
Places.
- Mondragon, Vaucluse, a town and commune in France
- Mondragon, Northern Samar, a municipality in the Philippines
- Mondragón, a town and municipality in the Basque region of Spain, famous for its cooperative movement
- Mondragon University, a private university in the Basque region of Spain
- Villa Mondragone, a villa near Rome
- Antinous Mondragone, a bust of Antinous found in the Roman villa
People.
- Cristóbal de