A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF DIONYSUS

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF DIONYSUS
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The youthful god depicted nude, standing with his weight on his right leg, his left leg slightly advanced and bent at the knee, his hips thrust to his right creating a gently-curving medial line, his musculature softly modelled, tendrils of his hair falling onto each shoulder
26¾ in. (67.9 cm.) high

來源

German Private Collection, 1990s.

拍品專文

The present sculpture is a version of the "resting Dionysus" type, a basic figural formula ultimately derived from Praxiteles's Lycian Apollo. See nos. 119-128 in Gasparri, "Dionysos" in LIMC. The pose of this torso most closely resembles a full-length figure of Dionysus in Woburn Abbey (no. 12, figs. 76-79 in Angelicoussis, The Woburn Abbey Collection of Classical Antiquities), which depicts the god resting his left arm on a tree trunk support entwined by a serpent.