Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Silenus with the Child Dionysus
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Silenus with the Child Dionysus
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Image View:
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Detail, lower body and sculptural support draped with animal skin and grapes
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Creator:
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after Lysippos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 370-ca. 300 BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 2292
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Location Note:
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Museo Chiaramonti, Braccio Nuovo (New Wing)
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GPS:
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+41.906389+12.454444
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Date:
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Greek original, ca. 300 BCE (creation); Roman copy, ca. 150 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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marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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1.9 m (height)
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Subjects:
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deities; mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); child; infant; baby
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Description:
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The aged Silenus, tutor and companion of the god of wine Dionysos, cradles the god who is here shown as a baby. Found in Rome in the 16th century in the Gardens of Sallust near the Quirinal. Roman copy of the middle 2nd century CE after a Greek original by Lysippos (ca. 300 BCE, early Hellenistic). (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-VM-SWCD-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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