Harvard Art Museums > 1949.47.145: Lower Right Part of a Hellenistic-Type Landscape Relief, Dionysiac Scene Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Lower Right Part of a Hellenistic-Type Landscape Relief, Dionysiac Scene , 1949.47.145,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/291339. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1949.47.145 Title Lower Right Part of a Hellenistic-Type Landscape Relief, Dionysiac Scene Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date early 2nd century CE Period Roman Imperial period, Middle Culture Roman Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/291339 Physical Descriptions Medium Marble Dimensions actual: 27.3 x 29.2 cm (10 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949. Probably purchased at one of three sales of Brummer's merchandise held in 1949. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund Accession Year 1949 Object Number 1949.47.145 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 199096 Lower Right Part of a Hellenistic-Type Landscape Relief, Dionysiac Scene Sharp diagonal cut across the top from upper right to lower left. The left edge missing, the right edge is preserved. Drillwork visible around altar. This copy has been dated early in the second century A.D. What remains comprises the lower part of a dancing maenad facing the foot of a seated satyr. At the right are a rustic altar, a herm, and a tree. The scene can be reconstructed from another, complete Graeco-Roman relief, in Berlin, which came from Prusias ad Hypium in Bithynia. It shows that the satyr was grasping the maenad's right hand, which held a drinking horn. The provenance of the relief in Berlin at major Imperial city in northwest Asia Minor and the relationship to the bronze group known as the Invitation to the Dance suggest the original of these two reliefs was very likely made in a Bithynian or Mysian center such as Cyzicus, where the Invitation to the Dance appears on Greek Imperial coins. Pergamon under Marcus Aurelius (Emperor A.D. 161-180) also created a masterful numismatic reverse, a satyr and the young Dionysos, based on a relief related to these examples (Vermeule, C., 1983, p. 14, fig. 23). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History George M. A. Hanfmann, "A Hellenistic Landscape Relief", American Journal of Archaeology (1966), 70, pp. 371, 373, pl. 94: the Fogg and Berlin reliefs Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 40. Cornelius C. Vermeule III, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 1981), p. 232, under no. 194 Heide Froning, Marmor-Schmuckreliefs mit griechischen Mythen im I.Jh.v.Chr.: Untersuchungen zu Chronologie und Funktion., Verlag Philipp von Zabern (Mainz, Germany, 1981), p. 48 fn. 78 Caroline Houser, "Alexander's Influence on Greek Sculpture as Seen in a Portrait in Athens", National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1982), pp. 60-61, no. 40 Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 110, no. 96 Exhibition History Landscape in Art: Origin and Development, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
