Sujet
Statuettes of Three Banqueters, 550-525 BC. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Statuettes of Three Banqueters, 550-525 BC. Statuettes of Revelers. Additional Info: Three men recline, each supporting himself on an elbow, partaking in a symposium or drinking party. All are bearded and bare-chested, with a cloak wrapped around their lower bodies, yet each is distinguished from the others. One holds a keras (drinking horn), another gesticulates as if making a point in the conversation, and a third rubs his belly. The trio probably decorated the rim of a large bronze vessel that might have been used in a symposium for mixing wine and water. The symposium was a key institution in aristocratic Greek life. Not merely a party in the modern sense of the word, these all-male events often had a strong ritual aspect, indoctrinating and reinforcing the values of society among their participants.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM25A00_470
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,3Mo (1,4Mo) / 46,1cm x 27,4cm / 5445 x 3232 (300dpi)