DANCING MAENADS

• DANCING MAENADS:
2 Large Marble Frieze Reliefs H89 X W165 cm each,
Roman
"The female figures are faithful copies of the models created at the end of the 5th c. BC by the Greek sculptor Callimachus.
Some, such as the maenad holding a basket full of fruit and the one screaming disheveledly brandishing two torches and with her arms wrapped in snakes, are however not typical of the Dionysian thiasos but refer to the iconography of an offering bearer or a Hora [season] and that of an Erinyes [personification of revenge especially towards those who attack one's family], themes that adapt to a funerary context."
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White Marble
Mid- 1st AD
- LEFT [no faces preserved]
- RIGHT [featured in this post].
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Musei Reali Torino, Turin | MRT
[Museum of Antiquities | Museo di Antichità, -1 Floor]
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MRT | Michael Svetbird phs©msp 18|02|24 6300X4200 600 [I.]
The photographed objects are collection items of MRT, photos are copyrighted
[non commercial use | sorry for the watermarks]
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📸 Part of the "Reliefs-Friezes-Slabs-Sculpture" MSP Online Photo-gallery:
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👉 D-ART:
https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/72510770/reliefs-friezes-slabs-sculpture

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