Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Dancing Satyr
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Dancing Satyr
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Image View:
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View from back left, showing small tail
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Creator:
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after Lysippos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 370-ca. 300 BCE); Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish restorer, ca. 1770-1844); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. CCXXV
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Location Note:
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Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5; Borghese Collection
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GPS:
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+41.914+12.492
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Date:
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Greek original, ca. 350 BCE (creation); Roman copy, ca. 220 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; Hellenistic
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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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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215 cm (height, with plinth)
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Subjects:
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music; mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); Restoration and conservation; dance; cymbals
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Description:
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A musical companion of the god Dionysos. The tree trunk support draped with an animal skin suggests that the marble is a copy of a bronze original which would have been freestanding. It was heavily restored in the nineteenth century; the face shows that the satyr was playing a flute, not the finger cymbals shown. Why the restorer, Thorvaldsen, ignored the evidence of the figure’s puffed cheeks is a mystery. Found in 1824 on Monte Calvo near Rieti in central Italy. (Source: Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge; https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-LYSIPPOS-BG-DC-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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