Artist. Classicist. Polyglot.
Roman terracotta relief with a Satyr and a Maenad, 27 B. .-A.D. 68 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The dancing Satyr has been a recurring motif that I always look back to whenever I think about the body in art. Just formally these sculptures, or fragments of them, sing a most beautiful sound. The … Continue reading The Dance: Satyr and Maenad
Photo of a 19th century French sculpture of a Bacchante at the National Gallery of Art (© Darryl Smith, 2019) I’ve always been perplexed by how Bacchantes, the female worshippers of Dionysus, have been portrayed in art after the Ancient Greeks. Looking at Greek ceramics and reading Euripides The Bacchae (I’m currently plowing through Nonnus’ … Continue reading περί Βακχῶν (About Bacchantes)
