A pair of herm busts of Bacchus and Ariadne. Archaic-style hair ( and beard ) arranged in three rows of tight curls over the brow. Neo Attic dating from the first half of the second century b.c., in the Vatican Museums.
Bacchus is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivities, insanity, ritual madness, etc. He was also known as Dionysus by the Romans.
Ariadne was a Cretan princess, the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne, and later married her. Many versions of the myth recount Dionysus throwing Ariadne’s jeweled crown into the sky to create a constellation, the Corona Borealis.
H 360mm
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