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Description: | This painting depicts a priestess of Bacchus, also known as a Maenad or Bacchante, with her typical swirling drapery, her figure expressing physical abandonment as she beats a tambourine' (Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, p. 37), revelling before a genii-nostra altar, upon which a fire is burning. She has a wreath of leaves, tied with gold ribbon, on her head. There is a statue of crouching Silenus, the drunken yet wise old companion of Bacchus, in a niche. A marble frieze of a similar scene runs along the top of the picture. | Subjects: | figure; buildings and gardens; mythology (Bacchus; Silenus; Maenad) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (Dutch and British painter, 1836-1912) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9198... | Go to resource |
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