Bronze Age Pawg

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Alexander Sigov. Europa and the Bull

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"The Feast of Silenus" by Alfred Philippe Roll, 1871

In Bacchic frenzy, Silenus, companion of Dionysus, rides a donkey.

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Hypatia by Odoardo Tabacchi

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Giovanni Dupré, “Saffo abbandonata” (𝟣𝟪𝟨𝟣)

Mirabile è quel guardo della Saffo; quand'uno l'ha veduto una volta, e gli si ficca nell'immaginazione e non si può dimenticare. — Augusto Conti

Eng · Admirable is that look of Sappho's; when you’ve seen it once, it sticks in your imagination and cannot be forgotten.

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Oleksii Gnievyshev

Europa and the Bull, 2024, oil on canvas, 80x120 cm

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Gilded bronze mirror with the Three Graces. Roman. mid-2nd century CE x

This mirror belongs to the same group as the adjacent one with Europa and the Bull (1978.11.4). The Three Graces were eminently suitable subject matter for a toilet article such as a mirror. However, they had a wider appeal and are found represented in many different media, including Roman mosaics and sculpture. A fine example of such a sculptural group is displayed in the adjoining Roman courtyard.

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'Tom O'Bedlam' by Norman Lindsay, c. 1918

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Owen Gent, “Sappho Fragment No. 119”

‘cloth dripping’

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Greek plaque of a man interrupting a female lyre-player. A possible interpretation is Sappho rejecting the advances of another poet, Alkaios of Mytilene

480 - 460 BCE

British Museum 1842,0728.1132

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Satyr and Maenad, 2nd century BC (before 100 BC, after 150 BC) House of the Faun (VI, 12, 2), Pompeii Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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Jules Scalbert (French, 1851-1928) Nymphes et Satyre, n.d.

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