Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: satyrs

A marble relief depicting part of a Thiasos, or Dionysiac procession. The foremost figure is a maenad playing a tympanum or tambourine. The second is a young satyr playing a double flute. The third is a satyr carrying a thyrsus and attended by the panther of Dionysus (Bacchus). Roman, about 100 CE. Found in 1776 by Gavin Hamilton in the Villa Quintiliana at Gabii, an ancient city of Latium, located 18 km due east of Rome along the Via Praenestina, (which was in early times known as the Via Gabina).

Gustave Doré created this three-ton bronze vase, for French winemakers, who exhibited it at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair. It represents an allegory of the annual wine vintage, taking the shape of a colossal wine vessel decorated with figures associated with the rites of Bacchus (the Roman god of wine). The revelers include cupids, satyrs, and bacchantes, who protect the grape vines from pests. The foundry shipped this bronze version of the vase to Chicago for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and then to San Francisco for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. (This exuberant work must have resonated with the fair’s theme, "California: Cornucopia of the World.") According to an article in an 1893 issue of World’s Fair, "The total visual effect of ‘Poem of the Vine’ is one of lush, rich enjoyment … like a bottle of wine itself, to be tasted in sips, yet enjoyed as a complete experience." M. H. de Young purchased the vase at the fair’s end and later donated it to the de Young Museum. In 1906 the San Francisco earthquake tipped over the vase but apparently caused little damage.