Colossal Statue of Indian Bacchus, (sculpture)

Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

Object Details

artist
Unknown
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 6
The type is the well known bearded and long robed Dionysus, regularly associated in Greek Art with the Indian triumph of the God. The prototype may have possibly been that Liber Pater which Pliny ascribes to the school of Praxiteles. Found in the Villa of Pollio Velius at Posilippo, near Naples. [Pp. 5-6; exhibited under heading: "Marbles."]
Italy Catalogue No. III by authority of the Italian Centennial Commission. Special Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities exhibited by Signor Alessandro Castellani, of Rome. In Rooms U, V, W, Memorial Hall. Philadelphia: Press of Edward Stern & Company. 1876.
1876
Control number
AECI 04580006
Type
Sculptures
Exhibition Catalogs
Medium
Marble
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
Topic
Mythology--Classical--Bacchus
Figure male
Record ID
siris_aeci_90828
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