The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special references to its use in art (1900)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, G. H. (George Henry) · New York : American Book · leaf 146
ns of Dionysus have come down to us onnumerous monuments. In earlier art he was generally depicted asmajestic and grave, and on that account represented with a beard.We have given an instance of this earlier conception in the so-calledSardanapalus of the Vatican (Fig. 37). In later art he became… … Fig, 41.—Danneckers Ariadne. Frankfort-on-the Main. |44 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGT. rounded limbs and the graceful ease of every attitude. The statusof a youthful Dionysus in the Louvre at Paris is an instance of thialater mode of conception (Fig. 38). So likewise is the head of Diony-sus at Leyden,…
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