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Antinous Image
Antinoüs (d. 122 A.D.) He was page to the Emperor Hadrian and the object of his affection. "In the attempt of sculptors to produce idealized representations of Antinoüs art received a great stimulus...." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. I, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 711.)
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 304. (Antinoüs, Rome, Vatican.)
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