Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Dancing Satyr

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Dancing Satyr
Image View: 
Detail, back of head and hair
Creator: 
after Lysippos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 370-ca. 300 BCE); Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish restorer, ca. 1770-1844); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location: 
repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. CCXXV
Location Note: 
Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5; Borghese Collection
GPS: 
+41.914+12.492
Date: 
Greek original, ca. 350 BCE (creation); Roman copy, ca. 220 CE (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Roman (ancient)
Style Period: 
Greco-Roman; Hellenistic
Work Type 1: 
sculpture (visual work)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
Pentelic marble
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Measurements: 
215 cm (height, with plinth)
Subjects: 
music; mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); Restoration and conservation; dance; cymbals
Description: 
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)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-LYSIPPOS-BG-DC-A06
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.