ECL-Bm.11:37-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.11:37-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Bacchic column sarcophagus
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Was Fa 2 no.1
Other number
Fa 3 Palazzo no. 1
Description
Content (description)
Seven spirally fluted columns on projecting bases divide the front and support a high entablature, which projects over the two columns at each end and over the three central columns. In each intercolumniation is a single figure. On left a nude Dionysus (?) holding a bunch of grapes in each hand, then a dancing draped maenad, a nude youth holding a yoke diagonally across his back with a swag of leaves and fruit hanging from each end, and then three figures of Hercules on bases. The first Hercules has a skin over his shoulder and holds or rests on a knob-like object; next is a Hercules of the Farnese type, and last Hercules with a skin over his head and arm, holding out apples.
Content (object)
drawing
Dimensions
height (actual size): 493mm
width (actual size): 774mm
width (actual size): 774mm
Inscription
Calderi Villa Mattei No. 1
written in ink on the back of the drawing
written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
C No. IV written in pencil on the front of the drawing, lower right
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Calderi, Carlo (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• RR (III ; 304.3)
• RR (III ; 298.1)
• RR (III ; 298.1)
