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Silenus (Mythological character)

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  • A marble vase sculpted with bacchic revels. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • Silenus, holding grapes and crowned with vines, flanked by a maenad and a faun. Engraving by C. Faucci, c. 1768, after G. B. Cipriani after P. Rubens.
  • Bacchus and Ariadne on a chariot accompanied by bacchants, Silenus etc. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • The love of divinity and wisdom and its effects on shameful love and indulgence. Engraving after Pietro da Cortona.
  • Silenus in a drunken sleep with satyrs and the naiad Aegle. Engraving by G. Vascellini after A. Fedi.
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    A drunken Silenus being helped to the base of a tree where lie female satyrs with their young. Etching by P. Soutman after P. P. Rubens.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. | Reference: 26955i
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    Bacchus and Ariadne on a chariot accompanied by bacchants, Silenus etc. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.

    Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609. | Date: [between 1670 and 1679?] | Reference: 11619i
    Part of: Paintings by Annibale Carracci in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Etchings by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
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    Silenus: head and shoulders, his head wreathed with vine leaves. Etching by R. Blyth, 1779, after J.H. Mortimer.

    Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779. | Date: July 19th 1779 | Reference: 3063664i
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    Bacchus carried on a chariot pulled by leopards, accompanied by a drunken procession of bacchants and satyrs, with Silenus and two elephants. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini da Cortona, 16--.

    Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669. | Date: [between 1600 and 1699] | Reference: 26941i
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    Silenus in a drunken sleep with satyrs and the naiad Aegle. Engraving by G. Vascellini after A. Fedi.

    Fedi, Antonio, the elder, active 1788. | Reference: 11577i
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