0 favorites     0 comments    552 visits

Location

Lat, Lng:  
Lat, Lng:  
You can copy the above to your favourite mapping app.
Address:  unknown

 View on map

See also...


Keywords

art
NewYork
Manhattan
Roman
NewYorkCity
Empire
Met
MMA
MetropolitanMuseum
NY
NYC
2007
sculpture
museum
relief
vase
ancient
marble
krater
FujiFinePixS6000fd


Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
All rights reserved

552 visits


Marble Calyx Krater with Reliefs of Maidens and Maenads in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2007

Marble Calyx Krater with Reliefs of Maidens and Maenads in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2007
Calyx-krater with reliefs of maidens and dancing maenads, 1st century A.D.; Imperial
Roman
Marble; H. 31 3/4 in. (80.65 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1923 (23.184)

The peristyle courtyards and gardens of the villas belonging to wealthy Romans were filled with fountains, sculpture, and monumental ornaments, such as this vase. Many of these decorative works were eclectic combinations of shapes and motifs drawn from Greek art that had been produced some five hundred years earlier. The six female figures that surround this vase are copies and adaptations taken from Greek (Attic) reliefs of the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. On one side, two modestly wrapped maidens approach a girl playing a double flute. On the other side, three maenads, consorts of the god Dionysos, dance in abandon to the music of wooden clappers. The gnarled trees above the handles and the handle attachments in the form of satyrs' heads evoke a bacchic celebration in a woodland setting.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jucl/hod_23.184.htm

Comments

Sign-in to write a comment.