Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Statue of a Maenad
Alternate Title:
Veneziani Maenad
Image View:
Overall context view in Palazzo Altemps
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo Altemps; Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46
GPS:
41.900935 12.473053
Date:
ca. 50 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Late Republican
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
Parian marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); maenads; bacchantes; Bacchus
Description:
Dated to the middle of the first century BCE. Found in 1777 in the locality of the Tor Tre Teste district (Municipio VII along the Via Praenestina) in Rome. Acquired by the Roman National Museum from the Veneziani family in 1997. The head is not original to the sculpture, although it is ancient; it was added in the eighteenth century. She is identified as a Maenad, a follower of Dionysus/Bacchus because she wears an animal skin on her shoulders and carries a young fawn or hind. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-PAL-SOM-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Statue of a Maenad