Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Silenus with the Child Dionysus
Image View:
Detail, lower half of body and sculptural support
Creator:
after Lysippos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 370-ca. 300 BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 2292
Location Note:
Museo Chiaramonti, Braccio Nuovo (New Wing)
GPS:
41.906389 12.454444
Date:
Greek original, ca. 300 BCE (creation); Roman copy, ca. 150 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Hellenistic
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Measurements:
1.9 m (height)
Subjects:
deities; mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); child; infant; baby
Description:
The aged Silenus, tutor and companion of the god of wine Dionysos, cradles the god who is here shown as a baby. Found in Rome in the 16th century in the Gardens of Sallust near the Quirinal. Roman copy of the middle 2nd century CE after a Greek original by Lysippos (ca. 300 BCE, early Hellenistic). (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-VM-SWCD-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Silenus with the Child Dionysus