~ Marble relief with a dancing maenad (Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos).
Period: Early Imperial, Augustan
Date: ca. 27 B.C.–A.D. 14
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble, Pentelic
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~ Marble relief with a dancing maenad (Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos).
Period: Early Imperial, Augustan
Date: ca. 27 B.C.–A.D. 14
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble, Pentelic
Dancing Maenad
Roman copy of the Augustan period after a Greek original of ca. 425–400 BC
Attributed to Kallimachos
Pentelic marble
Go forth, go forth, ye Bacchanals,
bring home the Bromian god Dionysus,
child of a god, from the mountains of Phrygia
to the spacious streets of Hellas,
bring home the Bromian god!
Euripides - The Bacchantes - 410 BCE
Image: Dancing Maenad - Roman, 27 B.C.–A.D. 14,The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artemis: the Dancing Maenad has always been one of my favorites at the Met.
MWW Artwork of the Day (8/25/21) Kallimachos (Greek, fl. late 5th c. BCE) Dancing Maenad (c. 425-400 BCE) Roman copy (1st c. CE) of a Greek relief, 143 cm. high The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Fletcher Fund)
As female votaries of Dionysos, maenads abandoned themselves to orgiastic festivities. They celebrated the rites of the god with song, dance, and music in the mountains, often clothed in animal skins. This dancing maenad, clothed in a diaphanous chiton, carries an object characteristic of Dionysos' retinue, the thyrsos, which consists of a fennel stalk crowned with a pinecone and ivy berries. The voluminous garment swirls about her in fanciful, highly expressive folds that evoke her dance. Her introspective expression, so typical of art of the Classical period, contrasts most effectively with the exuberance of her drapery. Callimachos was an architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BCE in the manner established by Polyclitus.
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