🪷 With the exception of a bust and a statue in Turkey, the #Antinous #Vertumnus of Tokyo is the only Antinous statue in Asia. Japan was once very open and accepting of homosexuality, so it is appropriate that #Antinoos would take his place there. 🪷

🪷 #Antinous as #Vertumnus the shape-shifting god-of-plenty and luck. #Antinoos as Vertumnus can take "any form his heart desires" as the #Obelisk of #Antinoo says. He can be anyone you meet, or you yourself. #MuseiVaticani. Reach out ... take his hand. 🪷

Died 11 December 1779: Cardinal Alessandro #Albani, whose villa was filled with #Antinous art found by friend #Winckelmann like this basrelief of #Antinoos as #Vertumnus. They spawned the #Antinomania fad when all aristocrats craved #Antinoo sculptures: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/12/cardinal-alessandro-albani-saint-of.html

#Antinous as #Vertumnus the shape-shifting god-of-plenty and luck. #Antinoos as Vertumnus can take "any form his heart desires" as the #Obelisk of #Antinoo says. He can be anyone you meet, or you yourself. #MuseiVaticani. Reach out ... take his hand.

#NovemberCountdown to Antinous' birthday on November 27th: #Antinous as #Vertumnus the shape-shifting god-of-plenty and luck. #Antinoos as Vertumnus can take "any form his heart desires" as the #Obelisk of #Antinoo says. He can be anyone you meet, or you yourself.