Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Drunken Satyr
Image View:
Detail, upper torso and head, with lion skin
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 5628
Location Note:
Piazza Museo, 19
GPS:
40.853378 14.250486
Date:
Roman copy, before 79 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Hellenistic; Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
bronze
Technique:
casting (process)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Description:
The bronze statue, which portrays a drunken elderly satyr, lying on a rock covered with a lion skin, adorned the western side of the natation (swimming pool) in the middle of the large peristilium (four-sided colonnade with a central garden) of Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum. For some scholars the Hellenistic original, which inspired the Roman copy, might be a work in the style of Lysippus, that can be dated to the first quarter of the third century BCE, while other scholars think that the original was created in Asia Minor following the style of the late-Hellenistic period (third quarter of the second century BCE). Found in the rectangular peristyle of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. (Source: Naples National Archaeological Museum [website]; https://www.museoarc heologiconapoli.it/e n/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-NAM-VP-DS-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Drunken Satyr