Wanderings in the Roman campagna . eeded in expressing that magic powerwhich exercised so mysterious an influence, not merelyupon Hadrian, but on all his contemporaries. ... Inthe total absence of satisfactory information as to therelation between iintinous and Hadrian, the numerousmonuments raised with unfeigned enthusiasm to cele-brate the memory of the former are of inestimablevalue. The same archaeologist, speaking of the colos-sal bust (n. 545 in the Rotunda of the Vatican), whichis represented as growing out of the calyx of a lotusflower, in a species of metempsychosis, remarks how the r
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . eeded in expressing that magic powerwhich exercised so mysterious an influence, not merelyupon Hadrian, but on all his contemporaries. ... Inthe total absence of satisfactory information as to therelation between iintinous and Hadrian, the numerousmonuments raised with unfeigned enthusiasm to cele-brate the memory of the former are of inestimablevalue. The same archaeologist, speaking of the colos-sal bust (n. 545 in the Rotunda of the Vatican), whichis represented as growing out of the calyx of a lotusflower, in a species of metempsychosis, remarks how the rounded outlines of the Bithynian, the slightlycurled hair, and the lovely trace of melancholy are notwithout originality in this thousand-times-repeated por-trait. As regards the calyx of the flower, introducedbelow the bust (sic), it probably refers to the flowernamed after Antinous, in which the soul of the youth, Guide to the Collections of Antiquities in Rome, ed. 1895, p. ^209, n. 295. Ruins and Museums of Rome, p. 436, n. THE STATUK OF ANTINOUS DISCOVERED PA GAVIN HAMILTONAT PALESTRIXA IN THE YEAR n-r, THE LAND OF HADRIAN 183 so early called away, was supposed still to continue toexist. We have in Rome a monument inscriljed with hisname, placed in a popular and conspicuous position;but its connection with Antinous being expressed inhieroglyphics, it has become known only to few. I referto the obelisk, discovered in 1570 by the brothers Curzioand Marcello Saccoccia in the circus of the Varian Gar-dens ))eyond Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, which wasremoved by Bernini to the Barberini palace at the timeof Urban VIII. President de Brosses and five othergentlemen from Burgundy asked leave from PopeClement Xll to erect it at their expense in front ofS. Luigi di Francesi. This scheme luckily failed, butthe wanderings of the pillar did not end then. PrincessCornelia Barberini presented it to Clement XIV, whocaused it to be removed to the Vatican; Pius VI thoughtof placing it fi
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