3840 x 5759 px | 32,5 x 48,8 cm | 12,8 x 19,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
11 giugno 2013
Ubicazione:
Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme, Rome, Italy
Altre informazioni:
The Dionysus Sardanapalus is an uncommon Hellenistic-Roman Neo Attic sculpture-type of the god Dionysus, misnamed after the king Sardanapalus. Unlike most contemporary figurations of Dionysus as a lithe youth, the self-consciously archaising god is heavily draped, with an ivy wreath and a long archaic-style beard; probably he bore a thyrsos in a raised right hand, now missing. The misidentification with Sardanapalus was erroneously confirmed in the example in the Vatican Museums, which was provided with a 17th-century restorer's inscription on a band across its chest with CΑΡΔΑΝΑΠΑΛΛΟC(Sardanapalus), giving the type its erroneous name (it has no true association with this legendary king). It was also restored with a modern thyrsus in wood and iron. Dionysus Sardanapalus from the British Museum In the early 19th century, Ennio Quirino Visconti cogently argued, against Johann Joachim Winckelmann and other earlier antiquarians, that the "Sardanapalus" of the Museo Pio-Clementino was in fact a Dionysus. All the surviving Hellenistic-Roman variants are copied from a Greek original of about 325 BCE.
