Author: Clairmont, Christoph W.
Title: Die Bildnisse des Antinous. Ein Beitrag zur Porträtplastik unter Kaiser Hadrian.
Description: Rom, Schweizerisches Institut in Rom, 1966. 62 pp. 38 plts with b./w. photographs. Orig. hardcover (cream cloth), d./j. 4to. - Dust jacket & cover with some foxingd dust jacket sl. torn at the bottom of the spine. Copy from the library of Rudolf Escher (1912-1980). Signed on the first free endpaper & dated 30 October 1975 Amsterdam. Rudolf Escher was a Dutch composer, music theorist, poet, painter and writer. His father was a half-brother of the graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher. - Rare work on the portrait sculptures of Antinous, also called Antinoös, (ca. 111 - ca. 130). Antinous was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favorite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god, and sometimes merely as a hero. - Text in German.

Keywords: Archaeology Roma Archeologie Rome