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Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Dionysus
81. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Dionysos and maenad in cart drawn by Papposilenos.
Red-figured bell-krater. Paestum.
Ca. 360—350 BCE.
Attributed to Python.
Inv. No. 1989.11.4.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
82. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of a horned youth wearing a diadem.
Marble.
Greek, Hellenistic, 3rd—2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 2012.479.10.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
83. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of a horned youth wearing a diadem.
Marble.
Greek, Hellenistic, 3rd—2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 2012.479.10.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
84. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Hermes with the Infant Dionysos.
Praxiteles.
Marble.
330 BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
85. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos-sarcophagus with Dionysus on a panther (the front relief).
Marble. Ca. 230—260 CE.
Inv. No. 1140.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
86. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos-sarcophagus with representation of dionysiac procession.
Marble. 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. SBAO 1140.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
87. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of a sarcophagus with representation of Centauromachy.
Proconnesian marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. SBAO 16651.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
88. MOSAIC. Greece.
Dionysos’ childhood.
Cyprus, the House of Aion.
Mid-4th cent. CE.
Paphos, Archaeological Park.
89. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with Dionysus, Ariadne and Centauri-clipeophori (front panel).
Marble. Ca. 230 CE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
90. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with Dionysus, Ariadne and Centauri-clipeophori (close-up).
Marble. Ca. 230 CE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
91. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Dionysus and Ariadne.
Marble. Ca. 235 CE.
Inv. No. Ma 1346.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
92. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Dionysus and Ariadne (front panel).
Marble. Ca. 235 CE.
Inv. No. Ma 1346.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
93. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Silenus with the Infant Dionysos.
Marble.
Inv. No. MR 346.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
94. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Silenus cradling the infant Dionysus.
Marble.
Roman copy of 1st-2nd cent. CE after a bronze Greek original of ca 300 BCE presumably by Lysippos.
Inv. Nos. MR 346 / Ma 922.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
95. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Silenus cradling the infant Dionysus.
Marble.
Roman copy of 1st-2nd cent. CE after a bronze Greek original of ca 300 BCE presumably by Lysippos.
Inv. Nos. MR 346 / Ma 922.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
96. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dramatic poet plays host to Dionysus (so-called “Icarios’ feast”).
Neo-Attic relief.
Marble. Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE from Greek model of late 2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. Nos. MR 719 / Ma 1606.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
97. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dramatic poet plays host to Dionysos (so-called “Icarios’ feast”). Detail.
Neo-Attic relief.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE from Greek model of late 2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. Nos. MR 719 / Ma 1606.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
98. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Borghese vase.
Pentelic marble.
Neo-attic work of the second half of the 1st century BCE.
Inv. Nos. MR 985 / Ma 86.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
99. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Borghese vase. Detail: Dionysus, Ariadne and dancing satyr.
Pentelic marble.
Neo-attic work of the second half of the 1st century BCE.
Inv. Nos. MR 985 / Ma 86.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
100. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Sacrifice to Bacchus in a countryside.
White marble.
End of the 1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 57.90.
Paris, National Library of France.