ECL-Bm.10:103-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.10:103-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Relief: dancing maenads
Relief showing the display of Caesar's blood stained garments
Relief showing the display of Caesar's blood stained garments
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
The relief shows three frenzied maenads with billowing drapery. The one on right turns to right. She holds a tympanum in one hand, a fold of her garment in the other. The other two maenads dance to left, the one in the centre holding a thyrsus and the forequarters of a deer, the other carrying its hindquarters and holding aloft behind her head a curved blade.
Content (object)
relief
Content (note)
This relief is very similar to Uffizi inv. 318, Mansuelli I no. 15, but according to the catalogue it comes from the Villa Medici.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 439mm
width (actual size): 631mm
width (actual size): 631mm
Inscription
Casa Riccardi nella Galleria written in ink on the back of the drawing
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Mansuelli (I no. 15)
