ARTIST: The Painter of Munich (Greece, active ca. 450 BC-420 BC)
TITLE OF WORK: Column krater with a komos dance and three maenads
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, terracotta red-figure column-krater vase
DATE: -435
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 35.9 x 27 cm
COMMENTS: This red-figure column-krater depicts a komos. On the front are three males and a woman. On the left, a bearded, mantled man moves left, looking at a skyphos (less handles) which he holds up in his ri
TITLE OF WORK: Sarcophagus with the myth of Dionysus and Ariadne. The Borghese vase (Sarcophage avec le mythe de Dionysos et Ariane. Vase Borghèse)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble sarcophagus
DATE: 230
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: The Borghese vase. This Roman sarcophagus, found in Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans in 1805, reflects the evolution of funerary themes in the early third century AD. On the box, Dionysos and his cortege of maen
TITLE OF WORK: The spirit of the dance (Le génie de la danse)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, white marble bust
DATE: 1870
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 65.7 cm height
COMMENTS: Inscribed "J B Carpeaux". It is known that it was Princess Hélène de Racowitza who modeled for the famous sculpture "The spirit of the dance", decorating the entrance of the Paris Opéra
TITLE OF WORK: The popular festival in honor of the Emperor Franz Joseph near Hermannstadt on 25/07 (Das Volksfest zu Ehren des Kaisers Franz Joseph bei Hermannstadt am 25. Juli)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
DATE: 1100
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Probably from the manuscipt 623 of the Laurentian Library. At left Salome dancing, at right Herod and Herodias. Herod offers on a plate the head of Saint John.
