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- Kylix with Dionysos and a satyr
- Greek; Late Archaic Period, ca. 490–480 BC
- Makron Painter
- Greece, Attica, Athens (Place of Manufacture)
- Ceramic, Red Figure
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Dionysos holding a kantharos and a vine, and a satyr pouring from an oinochoë. At the left the inscription “The boy is handsome” (HΟΠΑΙSΚΑLΟS / HO PAIS KALOS). The whole surrounded by a circle decorated with a meander. Exterior painted black without decoration. Repaired and painted over.
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- Dionysos
- Greek; Classical or Hellenistic Period, ca. 340 BC
- Marble probably from the Greek island of Paros
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Broken from a statue slightly more than life-size, the head is inclined toward the right shoulder. A broad fillet binds the hair, which is parted in the middle, escapes from under the fillet at the temples, and is drawn to the sides in thick masses of wavy locks. On the top of the head the hair is less carefully worked, and at the back, where it is gathered into a large knot at the nape of the neck, the surface is only blocked out. A separate curl hangs down behind each ear, perhaps once as far as the shoulders.
The head has been broken at the base of the neck. There is also a large break in the top of the head, and the ends of the locks behind the ears are missing. The surface has been injured slightly, on the forehead, the lower lip, the right side of the mouth, and the chin. The surfaces have a light yellow to gray patina.
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- Head of Dionysos
- Late Hellenistic or Late Republican, 1st century BC
- Greek or Roman (Culture)
- Terracotta
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Dionysos, god of wine and the pleasures it can bring, was extremely popular during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The Greek kings who ruled the lands conquered by Alexander the Great took him as patron deity, and the Romans, impressed by the luxury and wealth of those kingdoms, filled their private villas with images of the god. Dionysos could be shown either as an elderly bearded man, the perfect drinking companion, or as a beautiful youth.
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- Terracotta Lekythos: Dionysos with a Satyr and Goat
- Greek, Attic; Classical, ca. 480 BC
- Attributed to the Workshop of the Bowdoin Painter
- Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The decoration on the body is executed in a combination of black silhouette and outline drawing on a white ground. Such works, known as semioutline lekythoi, are associated with the workshops of two closely related artists, the Bowdoin Painter and the Athena Painter. The technique represents a modification of black-figure at a time when red-figure was gaining popularity.
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- Sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
- Roman; Late Imperial, Gallienic; ca. 260–270 AD
- Marble
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- Red-Figure Lekythos with Dionysos
- Attic; 470 BC
- Attributed to the Painter of the Yale
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- Dionysos and Satyr
- Imperial age, 50–350 AD
- Marble
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- Dionysos and a maenad
- Roman; Imperial Period, Hadrianic, 117–138 AD
- Attica, Athens (Place of Manufacture)
- Marble from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
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- Dionysus and his Entourage
- ca. 50 century BC
- White marble
- Museo Nacional del Prado
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- Dionysus
- Ancient Rome; 2nd century AD
- Roman copy after a Greek original
- Marble
- The State Hermitage Museum
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- Dionysus
- Roman, Hellenistic; 1st century BC–1st century AD
- Marble
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- Lansdowne Dionysus
- Roman; 1st half of the 2nd century
- Marble
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- Dionysus
- 190–210 AD
- White marble
- Museo Nacional del Prado
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- Dionysos and Satyr
- Roman; 1st half of the 2nd century AD
- Marble
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia
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- Statuette of Dionysos
- Greek; Early Hellenistic, Early 3rd century BC
- Marble
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Black Figure Pitcher (oinochoe) with Dionysos
- Greek; Late Archaic Period, ca. 500–490 BC
- Workshop of the Athena Painter
- Greece, Attica, Athens (Place of Manufacture)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Disk with a herm of Dionysos in relief
- Roman; Early Imperial, 3rd quarter of 1st century AD
- Marble
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Dionysus with Pan
- Roman; 50–150 AD
- Marble
- The Museum of Fine Arts
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- Statuette of Young Dionysos
- Roman; Imperial, 1st–2nd century AD
- Adaptation of a Greek statue type of the late 4th century BC
- Marble
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Herm bust of Dionysos
- Roman; Imperial Period, 50–140 AD
- Marble from Carrara in northwest Italy
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Dionysos
- Since 1827
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841)
- Berlin
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- Dionysus
- Ancient Rome; 2nd century AD
- Marble
- The State Hermitage Museum
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