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Wilhelm von Gloeden - The Boys of Taormina - portraits 2 - 30

Title Hypnos Catalog # 1744 Date circa 1900 Size N/A Whereabouts Unknown Published in Pohlmann, Ulrich (editor), Wilhelm von Gloeden - Sehnsucht nach Arkadien, Nishen, Berlin 1987, p. 129. Source Picture collected thanks to a Russian friend Note The title "Hypnos" ("Sleep" in Greek) comes from the fact that the boy holds two flowers of Brugmansia (known as Angel's Trumpet), having a hypnotic effect.

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