MAKE A MEME View Large Image Eros lamp holder.jpg century 1 BC Bronze Dallas Museum of Art Eros the Greek god of love is shown as a beautiful youth with both male and female characteristics The figure was originally part of a lamp holder and would have had an oil lamp ...
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Keywords: Eros lamp holder.jpg century 1 BC Bronze Dallas Museum of Art Eros the Greek god of love is shown as a beautiful youth with both male and female characteristics The figure was originally part of a lamp holder and would have had an oil lamp on the tendril he holds in an outstretched hand The sculpture shares in the expressive dynamic qualities of later Greek Hellenistic art; it appears to be flying on the rich beautifully detailed wings The lamp from which the figure came was probably made in the eastern Mediterranean for a wealthy house or villa in Italy The bronze has been associated with a trove of Greek luxury goods recovered from an ancient shipwreck near the town of Mahdia on the coast of Tunisia http //museum dma org 9090/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/2036/27/title-asc;jsessionid D315CFB7F9E05115A4A5062F651EDA78 t state flow 1a12ce2a-5069-4947-8315-b1733df78d5f Curator Anne Bromberg discusses the Eros lamp holder http //www dma mobi/ObjectDetail/dma_424610 own Alexmarie28 2011-04-04 PD-old-100 Statues of Eros Ancient Greek oil lamps Androgyny in ancient art Ancient Roman art in the Dallas Museum of Art
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