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BEHIND THE FAMOUS SAINT LIES A LITTLE-KNOWN SURVIVAL STORY
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Ask most people with a passing interest in iconography about the
martyrdom of St. Sebastian, and they'll refer to the flood of
paintings of him shot through with arrows. They quite naturally
conclude that he died from being skewered by soldiers dispatched by
the Roman emperor Diocletian.
He didn't. The Museum of Fine Arts' Bernardo Strozzi painting
"Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene and Her Maid" shows the two
women removing the arrows as delicately as if they were acupuncture
needles. Sebastian not only survived the attack, but went back to
Diocletian to brag about it. Dumb move. The ...
 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Hadrian's life and world; Conference marks loan of bronze head from museum.(News)(Conference news)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
; ...Henderson Environment Editor THE Emperor Hadrian has left his mark on life in the North...Segedunum exhibition The Face of an Emperor: Hadrian Inspects the Wall. Tomorrow will be the...British Museum's major new exhibition Hadrian: Empire and Conflict which will be on...
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HADRIAN THE GAY EMPEROR
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...to make it clear that he was gay. Hadrian: Empire and Conflict will see the bust make pilgrimages to both ends of Hadrian's Wall, the first time it has left...include memorials to the dead lover at Hadrian's villa in Tivoli. Although it...
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Who was Hadrian?
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...there Marguerite Yourcenar first saw the Emperor Hadrian, in the form of the grand bronze head fished...culminated in her 1951 masterpiece, Memoirs of Hadrian. Yourcenar, knowing that Hadrian had, at the end of his life, written an autobiography...
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Profile Hadrian The emperor who had legions of admirers Although devastated by the death of a 'boyfriend', he was a married man who engaged in many affairs and also had the political backing of the Roman military, writes William Langley
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...necessarily vague knowledge of Emperor Hadrian has grown the image of a miscast peacenik...to his boyfriend. After all, didn't Hadrian build that 73-mile wall across the neck...where an eagerly awaited exhibition of Hadrian's life and times opens this week, the...
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Lessons from Hadrian
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...59, is an illustration of this. A Jew passing the Roman Emperor Hadrian greeted him. Hadrian asked him: "Who are you?" The man replied: "A Jew." Infuriated, Hadrian said: "How dare a Jew greet Hadrian?!" And he ordered the man...
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CHARLEMAGNE AND HADRIAN A SACRED LEAGUE.(Charlemagne travels to Rome to build ties with Pope Hadrian I)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...As he traveled along the road to meet Hadrian I, the new pope, people waved banners...did he know that his relationship with Hadrian would last more than 20 years. Since...threatening to overtake the city. Now Hadrian wanted Charlemagne to keep his father...
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Poor Hadrian, saddled with the modern sins of Dubya
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; SO MANY wonderful things await at the Hadrian exhibition at the British Museum. There...the newly discovered "Antinoeion" at Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, a shrine to the...s the amazing colossal marble head of Hadrian himself, uncovered only a year ago in...
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Emperor by Adoption.(Hadrian)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...the age of the five good emperors." Hadrian was on the throne between A.D. 117...the best time to be alive. To be sure, Hadrian accomplished much when he was emperor...different story. Publius Aelius Hadrianus (Hadrian's full name) was born into a noble...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Compelling study of Hadrian's reign; BOOKS Hadrian - Empire and Conflict by Thorsten Opper. Published by British Museum Press, pounds 40th. Reviewed by RICHARD EDMONDS.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: RICHARD EDMONDS HADRIAN has always been a legendary figure...Caesar comes secondary in a way to Hadrian's track record - which is no mean...accompanies the current exhibition featuring Hadrian at the British Museum) show us a benign...
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Echo travel - Hadrian or bust
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...exhibition celebrating the life of Emperor Hadrian cannot fail to impress. Gavin Engelbrecht...amagnificent marble bust a yard high, Hadrian exudes power, sophistication and a timeless...place as the introductory exhibit of the Hadrian: Empire and Conflict on show at London...
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