Bust of Antinous (Gatchina)

The marble bust of Antinous is located in the White Hall of the Great Gatchina Palace at 1 Krasnoarmeysky Prospekt. The sculpture, found during excavations at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, was acquired by Ivan Shuvalov from the antiquities collector Gavin Hamilton in 1779. The bust possesses the canonical features of Antinous: a head slightly tilted to the left, a pensive gaze, and large disheveled curls. After the hall was restored in 1988, the sculpture was returned to its historical place on the sides of the door leading to the Antechamber, where it forms the second allegorical axis of the room together with the bust of Caracalla.