Hermes and the Infant Dionysos 1st c. BCE

"The subject of Dionysos's childhood was popular during the late Hellenistic-early Roman period. The classicizing and graceful figures seen here are characteristic of the Neo-Attic style. Neo-Attic sculptors utilized stock figures and themes to create harmonious compositions, rooted in earlier Greek sculpture of the fifth century BCE. Dionysiac themes were among the favorite subjects of these Hellenistic and Roman sculptors who prioritized style above subject.

The subject is Hermes carrying the infant Dionysos to the nymphs of Nysa; a nymph was seated, receiving the child, in the now lost right side of the panel. Hermes strides to the right, holding the infant Dionysos in front of him. The former wears his petasos and a chlamys pinned on the right shoulder and flowing out behind him. The latter is wrapped in an ample himation. A fillet molding, 0.03m wide, serves as a groundline, and there are cutdown traces of a similar, thinner molding at the left."

-taken from harvard link below

Hermes and the Infant Dionysos 1st c. BCE. Current location: Harvard Art Museums.

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https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/287352