 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Shiver me timbers! It's such a joy to escape the mainland.(Features)
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Byline: Aine Ryan
IT'S Saturday afternoon, just before 2 on the August bank holiday weekend. I'm off for a 10-day break and I'm running late courtesy of a herd of very relaxed cows. Apparently they're out for an afternoon stroll through the remote village of Accony.
(For your information, it's a sparsely populated townland teetering on the edge of the Atlantic, beyond Louisburgh in Co. Mayo.)
Anyway, because of these meandering bovines, I'm stressed out of my tree as I reach the car park. Unsurprisingly, it's pure bedlam. There are Japanese ...
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Sculpting Antinous.
Magazine article from: Helios
; ...Henry Moore Institute in Leeds crowned Antinous "the face of the Antique," prompting...David Beckham (Irving 2006). Indeed, Antinous appears to have been a popular, adaptable...extreme close-up and focused not just on Antinous as a commodity, but also on the consumption...
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BOOKS: THE VERY FIRST POP IDOL Following Hadrian By Elizabeth Speller REVIEW pounds 15.99; Why does the love story of Hadrian and Antinous seem so contemporary? Mark Simpson argues that we're all pagans now
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...handsome, curly-haired Greek lad Antinous which was undoubtedly the most modern...and again to the hypnotising figure of Antinous. Hadrian, arguably the first pop Svengali...the lowly born but divinely beautiful Antinous on one of his great tours of the Empire...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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Share the god-like beauty of Antinous.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
; ...devoted its summer exhibition to images of Antinous, the handsome male lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Antinous drowned mysteriously in the Nile before...erected by his subjects as the cult of Antinous spread through the empire. The young...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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art; Hadrian commemorated his lover Antinous with statues.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...recorded his love for the young Greek Antinous, whose death by drowning in the Nile...Several magnificent statues of the handsome Antinous feature in the new show at the British...myth, had also drowned in the Nile. As Antinous died on the very day of the commemoration...
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Beauty that must die
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Alfred Lord Tennyson on viewing a bust of Antinous, Hadrian's boy-favourite. If we...the ancient world. Some facts about Antinous himself would not go amiss either. In...Two centuries later, the thought of Antinous had Christians reaching for the smelling...
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Temple to emperor's lover found
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...that we have found the missing monument to Antinous." Hadrian lived from 76-138 AD and...stricken when his teenage Greek lover, Antinous, drowned in the Nile in 130 AD. Hadrian and Antinous's relationship scandalised early Christian...
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The poetry of youth
Newspaper article from: Between the Lines
; ...birth of Jesus, a handsome youth named Antinous was declared a god by the Roman emperor...Aelius Hadrian. Hadrian fell in love with Antinous when the boy was 13, an age when many...like incense on a starry night." Antinous, in devotion to emperor Hadrian, gave...
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T.J. Wilcox at Gavin Brown's enterprise.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...animation, and the second, Hadrian and Antinous, is a narrative romance some five minutes...left with a sense of dread. Hadrian and Antinous is based on Marguerite Yourcenar's...emperor and idealized Roman statues of Antinous; Wilcox also employed an actor to stand...
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Mark Flores: David Kordansky Gallery.
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...desire. Central to this negotiation is Antinous, the teenage lover of Roman emperor...suicide, murder, or an accident--Antinous was deified by Hadrian in mourning...universal icon of youthful male beauty. Antinous Ubiquitous (all works 2008) is a triptych...
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HADRIAN THE GAY EMPEROR
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...artefacts relate to his male consort, Antinous, who accompanied him on his travels...no other emperor had before him. When Antinous drowned in mysterious circumstances...unusual in Hadrian's attitude towards Antinous was the way in which he publicly deified...
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