Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Relief with Seated Dionysus
Image View:
Overall view of relief plaque; Dionysus holds the thyrsus
Creator:
unknown (Greek or Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 6728
Location Note:
Piazza Museo, 19; Farnese Collection
GPS:
40.853378 14.250486
Date:
1st century CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Neo-Attic
Work Type 1:
relief (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
white marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
deities; mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); leopard; wine; thyrsus
Description:
Neo-Attic or Atticizing is a sculptural style, beginning in the 1st century BCE and climaxing in Roman art of the 2nd century CE, copying, adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the Classical (5th–4th centuries BCE) and Archaic (6th century BCE) periods. There were Neo-Attic workshops in Rome, probably of Greek artisans. The term was used by Friedrich Hauser; the corpus that Hauser called "Neo-Attic" consists of bas-reliefs molded on decorative vessels and plaques such as this one. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-NAM-RSD-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Relief with Seated Dionysus