Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Relief with Dionysiac Scene
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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 Dionysiac Scene
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Alternate Title:
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Rilievo con scena dionisiaca
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Image View:
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Detail of swaying and swooning Maenads and the tripod on a column with palm branches in the background
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Creator:
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unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1914 no. 314
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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. 1-50 CE (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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marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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human figure; mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); Bacchantes; Maenads
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Description:
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Critics have surmised that the scene, with Dionysus surrounded by drunken Maenads, depicts an ecstatic Dionysiac rite practiced by Athenian women and described by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE. The presence of a tripod on a column with palm branches tells us the scene is set in Delphi. It can be assigned to the Neo-Attic school, who produced copies of earlier classical Greek sculpture for rich patrons in Greece, Pergamon, Alexandria, and Italy. [Information on 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-RDS-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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