Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Relief with Dancing Maenads
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Relief with Dancing Maenads
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Image View:
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Detail, center Maenad holding animal sacrifice and a thrysus
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Creator:
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after Kallimachos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active 2nd half of 5th century BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1914 no. 318
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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ca. 40-10 BCE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Greco-Roman; Neo-Attic
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Work Type 1:
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bas-relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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Pentelic marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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59 cm (height) x 97 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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human figure; mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); Bacchante
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Description:
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Formerly in the Riccardi Collection, entered the Uffizi in 1825. The theme of dancing Maenads is known from over 50 Roman marble replicas, harking back to a late 5th century BCE prototype attributed to the school of Callimachus (Kallimachos). This relief very accurately reproduces three of the six Maenads on the Athenian original. The finished work was decorated with gold leaf (for the hair, jewelry and thyrsus). [Information from museum label.]
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-UG-RDM-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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