Sunday, April 27, 2014

L.A.-BASED ANTONIUS SUBIA PAYS RESPECTS
TO THE FIRST ANTINOUS BUST HE EVER SAW


THIS past week I visited the Antinous of Chicago...

And paid homage in the place where I discovered him long ago.

The entire visit to the Art Institute Museum was very moving...

I spent an entire day there as if in a dream.

I was moved to tears more than once.

Antinous was the most powerful experience of all.

And later as I walked through so many halls of beauty
It was impossible to restrain my emotions.

(...and as is my custom, I dropped a little paper Ivy Leaf with a prayer printed on it behind the little plinth that Antinous's lovely head was resting upon, where I hope it will stay for a long time.)

MAY ANTINOUS BLESS US ALL.

~SUBIA

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