id: 130359 accession number: 1953.124 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.124 updated: 2023-04-28 11:24:37.277000 Candelabrum Stand of a Dancing Maenad, 525–500 BC. Italy, Etruscan, late 6th Century BC. Bronze; overall: 18.8 cm (7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.124 title: Candelabrum Stand of a Dancing Maenad title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 525–500 BC creation date earliest: -525 creation date latest: -500 current location: 102D Pre-Roman creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Etruscan, late 6th Century BC technique: bronze department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Etruscan type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 18.8 cm (7 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Masterpieces of Etruscan Art opening date: 1967-04-21T05:00:00 Masterpieces of Etruscan Art. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (organizer) (April 21-June 4, 1967). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Masterpieces of Etruscan Art, Worcester Art Museum (April 21 to June 4, 1967). * The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze, Cleveland Museum of Art, (16 November 1988-8 January 1989); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (9 February-9 April 1989); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (9 May-9 July 1989). --- PROVENANCE (Alessandro Brass, Venice, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: A small turtle beneath the figure’s back foot suggests a rustic setting. digital description: Conceived primarily in two dimensions—front and rear silhouette—this small bronze dancer probably once belonged to an elaborate candelabra or incense burner. The exaggeratedly long fingers and pointed shoes characterize the work as Etruscan, as do the stylized folds of the figure’s dress, which add visual interest but not verisimilitude. While her right hand holds above her head a cylindrical support, her left squeezes a small object, perhaps a fruit or clapper. wall description: The woodland turtle beneath one of the maenad's feet identifies her. The work maenad means "frenzied woman." and woman who followed the god of wine- Dionysus- performed their rites in the woods and mountains, with an ecstatic frenzy that earned them their name. Silhouette was of paramount importance to the early Etruscan artist. This elegant figure was conceived as separate front and back views, with virtually no side views. Its look is rather similar to the appearance of dancing figures painted on Greek vases, which were imported in quantity by the Etruscans. Possibly the artist who created this bronze--which was originally the support of an incense burner--was inspired by Greek vase painting. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "An Etruscan Dancing Maenad." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 8 (1955): 186-88. page number: url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142063 Art Quarterly (Winter, 1953). page number: p. 346 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 17 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n19 Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: p. 12 url: Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.9-10 url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n13 Teitz, Richard Stuart. Masterpieces of Etruscan Art; [Exhibition at the] Worcester Art Museum, April 21 to June 4, 1967. [Worcester, Mass.]: [Printed by the Davis Press], 1967. page number: 38-39, illus. 134, no. 23 url: Glubok, Shirley, Alfred H. Tamarin, and Gerard Nook. The Art of the Etruscans. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. page number: p. 34 url: The Connoisseur, vol. 166, no. 668 (October, 1967). page number: p. 133 url: Alvarez, Octavio J. The Celestial Brides: A Study in Mythology and Archaeology. Stockbridge, Mass: H. Reichner, 1978. page number: p. 141, pl. 56 url: Brendel, Otto, and Francesca R. Serra Ridgway. Etruscan Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. page number: p. 461, no. 16 url: Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. page number: url: Apollo (January 1989). page number: p. 58 url: Kozloff, A. P. "Bronzenstatuetten der Antike," Kunst and Antiquitaten 89, Heft I (1989). page number: pp. 30-33 url: Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989. page number: p. 11 url: Kozloff, A.P. "La Figure Humaine dans les bronzes Antiques," Archeologia 248 (July-August 1989). page number: pp. 54-61 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n23 Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1994. page number: pp. 10, 23, fig. 2.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.124/1953.124_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.124/1953.124_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.124/1953.124_full.tif