Antinous…
To us Antinous became a real thing from the great creation of Marguerite Yourcenar “Memoirs of Hadrian”.
This novel is not just great. It is one of the grandiose achievements of humanity.
And maybe the best literature achievement of the female part of the humanity.
When we saw in an ancient museum archive sketch of this face, “unknown” it said about it,
to us it became Antinous.
We have created our illustration of the face with the delicate technique of the graphite powder.
Perfect, sensitive, vulnerable, tender…