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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Dancing Satyr
Image View:
Detail, sculptural support with draped panther skin, one of the attributes of Bacchus/ Dionysus
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-A 11
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Dancing Satyr