A powerful mid-century architectural homage to classical antiquity, capturing the fluid energy and dark romanticism of the Neo-Attic style.
Measuring 41 x 20 cm, this substantial high-relief wall plaque replicates one of the most famous classical motifs of the ancient world: the Frenzied Maenad (Type 25), after the lost 5th-century BCE Greek masterworks by Callimachus The figure, a female devotee of Dionysus (Bacchus), is depicted in a state of ecstatic, ritualistic dance. In her right hand, raised above her head, she holds a sacrificial dagger, while her left hand grips the severed hindquarters of a sacrificed kid (goat).
Her intricately carved, billowing drapery slips away to expose her torso, masterfully conveying the wild, hypnotic motion of the Dionysian mystery cults.
A powerful mid-century architectural homage to classical antiquity, capturing the fluid energy and dark romanticism of the Neo-Attic style.
Measuring 41 x 20 cm, this substantial high-relief wall plaque replicates one of the most famous classical motifs of the ancient world: the Frenzied Maenad (Type 25), after the lost 5th-century BCE Greek masterworks by Callimachus The figure, a female devotee of Dionysus (Bacchus), is depicted in a state of ecstatic, ritualistic dance. In her right hand, raised above her head, she holds a sacrificial dagger, while her left hand grips the severed hindquarters of a sacrificed kid (goat).
Her intricately carved, billowing drapery slips away to expose her torso, masterfully conveying the wild, hypnotic motion of the Dionysian mystery cults.
