Sneak Preview: Bacchae at the Getty Villa- opening September 6th
Sneak Preview: Bacchae at the Getty Villa- opening September 6th by Leticia Marie Sanchez Dionysus (aka Bacchus in Roman) was a busy deity; he was the god of, among other things, wine, winemaking, religious ecstasy, madness and the theater. Multi-tasking Dionysus: “I wear many hats, er, Ivy Crowns.” Different visual clues can let you know that the deity you are beholding in work of art may be Dionysus: Grape Vines, a Leopard-drawn chariot, the Ivy Crown, or the Thyrsos (pine-cone staff). What could be a better place than the Getty Villa, with its myriad works of antiquity, to stage a play about the god of theater? Left: Head from the Statue of the Young Bacchus Artist/Maker: Unknown; Roman Empire; first half of 1st century A.D. Bronze with silver; Object Number: 96.AB.52 Dimensions: 21.6 × 18 × 19 cm (8 1/2
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