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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Pan and Daphnis
Image View:
Detail, lower bodies of Pan and Daphnis
Creator:
after Heliodoros of Rhodes (Ancient Greek sculptor, 2nd-1st centuries BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 8571
Location Note:
via Sant’Apollinare, 46 (Palazzo Altemps)
GPS:
41.901169 12.473062
Date:
Greek original, ca. 100 BCE (other); Roman copy, ca. 100-199 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Hellenistic
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
music; mythology (Classical); satyr
Description:
Pan teaching the shepherd Daphnis to play the syrinx (panpipes), made of reeds. Roman marble copy of the 2nd century CE after a Hellenistic original by Heliodoros of Rhodes (active ca. 100 BCE). Characteristic of Hellenistic production of sculptures with pastoral and erotic subjects, used as garden decorations. Daphnis, by legend the son of Hermes, was said to be the inventor of pastoral poetry. [source: museum label]
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-PAL-PD-A12
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Pan and Daphnis