Winckelmann recognised it as a statue "of the first class" and much admired the head, "undoubtedly one of the most beautiful heads of a young man from Antiquity", even though he criticised the working of its feet, stomach and legs In Winckelmann's time the statue's identification as Antinous had already been disproved, and the statue was interpreted instead as a Meleager, hero of the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. It was finally identified as Hermes by the scholar Ennio Quirino Visconti, in his catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino (1818–1822). Notes References Brummer, Hans Henrik, 1970. The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere (Stockholm). Haskell, Francis, and Nicholas Penny, 1981. Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press), cat. no. 4, pp 141–43. Helbig, Wolfgang, 1963–72. Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen der klassistischer Altertümer in Rom, (Tübingen) 4th ed., I, pp 190–91. Statues mistaken for Antinous Sculptures of the Vatican Museums Sculptures of Hermes Hellenistic-style Roman sculptures Archaeological discoveries in Italy Nude sculptures