A monumental marble torso of dionysos is on loan to the getty museum as a highlight of a special installation celebrating the ancient greek and roman marble and bronze sculptures from the santa barbara museum of art s collection.
Marble torso of dionysus.
Well known hellenistic sculptures of dionysian subjects surviving in roman copies include the barberini faun the belvedere torso the resting satyr.
In the archaeological museum olympia greece.
Entered isabella stewart gardner s collection as the borghese bacchus before about 1897.
350 330 bce or a hellenistic copy of his original.
Torso of a standing nude dionysus of white grey marble with his typical panther fur thrown over his left shoulder and tied over his right hip.
Torso of dionysus 140 190 ad.
Torso of a youth.
The lansdowne dionysos detail a d.
Course grained greek marble 128 3 x 38 7 x 34 9 cm 50 1 2 x 15 1 4 x 13 3 4 in overall.
33 7 x 19 4 x 12 7 cm type.
Marble statue of dionysus.
62 2 41 9 23 2 cm 3 d object sculpture.
A roman marble torso of dionysus circa 1st century a d.
σάτυρος sátyros pronounced also known as a silenos greek.
Arts of the ancient world.
24 16 9 1 8 in.
In greek mythology a satyr greek.
13 1 4 x 7 5 8 x 5 in.
Hermes and the infant dionysus is probably a greek original in marble and the ludovisi dionysus group is probably a roman original of the second century ad.
Object details accession number.
Torso of apollo or dionysos copy or adaptation after greek original 1st 2nd century.
A roman marble torso of dionysus ca.
The paws of the animal are knotted on the left shoulder the panther head rests on the god s right chest.
Related collections and exhibitions.
Perhaps purchased from the borghese collection rome.
σειληνός seilēnós is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse as well as a permanent exaggerated erection early artistic representations sometimes include horse like legs but by the sixth century bc they were more often represented with human.