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Six sculptures from the 1817 catalogue

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Bacchus and his wife, crowned with vine leaves and holding thyrsi in their hands, are carried on two chariots drawn by centaurs. Among the accompanying figures, executed with very elaborate workmanship, one notices the little faun riding on a centaur's back, to whom this creature pours a drink from a horn or rhyton. The central medallion contains the busts of two Romans whose ashes rested in this tomb. The woman's hairstyle follows the fashion of the third century of the Christian era.

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English, synthetic voice. A reading of the 1817 catalogue. Independent demonstration, not a Louvre commission.

Visconti, 1817, pages 2 to 3, entry 3.

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