olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on neck (front); garland (ivy leaf, berry); on belly; painting (remains); Dionysian scene; Dionysus (crown, beard, to the right, holding, keras, surrounded by); maenad (2, headband, draped); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; there remain two non-joining fragments, one of which preserves the neck and the top of the painting, the other the foot with the bottom of the belly; glued back together

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

The Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities is home to a collection of artworks representing the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations; it illustrates the art of a vast area encompassing Greece, Italy, and the whole of the Mediterranean basin, and spans the period from Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) to the 6th century AD.

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