ECL-Bm.12:90-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.12:90-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Funerary altar
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
BM 12 nos. 88,89,90 are catalogued together as drawings of the same altar
Other number
Fa 3 no. 88
Description
Content (description)
On each side at the top hangs a garland of fruit and leaves from fleshless boukrania at the top corners, looped up in the centre by a twisted cord. Fillets hang from the horns of the boukrania. Beneath each garland is the figure of a maenad.
88: front. The maenad moves to right on a rocky line, her head thrown back and her hair flying. One breast is bare and she has a drape looped over her outspread arms. Before her she holds the severed head of a youth, behind her she holds a short sword. Over the two swags of the garland is an inscription arranged as follows:
D M M ULPIU/////
TERP NUS FECIT SIBI
ET ULPIAE SE CUNDILIAE
LIBERTAE B M
89: a maenad dances to right on a rocky line, her arms outspread and holding a drape behind her. She turns her head back to left. She wears a diadem.
90: a maenad moves right on a rocky line with her head bent back and her hair flying. A drape hangs behind her from her outspread arms. She carries a thyrsus over her left shoulder and holds a tympanum or crotola in her right hand behind her.
88: front. The maenad moves to right on a rocky line, her head thrown back and her hair flying. One breast is bare and she has a drape looped over her outspread arms. Before her she holds the severed head of a youth, behind her she holds a short sword. Over the two swags of the garland is an inscription arranged as follows:
D M M ULPIU/////
TERP NUS FECIT SIBI
ET ULPIAE SE CUNDILIAE
LIBERTAE B M
89: a maenad dances to right on a rocky line, her arms outspread and holding a drape behind her. She turns her head back to left. She wears a diadem.
90: a maenad moves right on a rocky line with her head bent back and her hair flying. A drape hangs behind her from her outspread arms. She carries a thyrsus over her left shoulder and holds a tympanum or crotola in her right hand behind her.
Content (object)
altar
bust
bust
Dimensions
height (actual size): 495mm
width (actual size): 370mm
width (actual size): 370mm
Inscription
Ciferri Villa Medici No. 88 written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
Villa Medici N. 88 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left.
Materials & techniques note
red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Ciferri, Bernardino (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Mansuelli (I ; no. 221)
