#sparagmos

FRESCO FRAGMENT WITH MAENAD, C. 30 BCE. MUSEO BARRACCO The archaeologist Ludwig Pollak (1868-1943) was the trusted expert of and buyer for the rich senator Baron Giovanni Barracco, who built up a significant collection of antiquities. Among the pieces he acquired for Barracco was this fresco of a Maenad with a goat, of which his notebooks make a terse reference in 1907. In fact this is not, strictly speaking, a fresco, as it is clearly painted on dry plaster with plenty of evidence of pigment loss. We also don't know its provenance, though earlier that year Pollak had bought a fresco of a Hermaphrodite in Capua, and this too could be Campanian. A graceful Maenad is walking toward the right, her beautiful profile evoking Greek vase painting or, indeed the frescoes from the villa of Agrippa and Julia. The Maenad, in a flowing yellow stola, is firmly gripping the horn of a goat which is preceding her. I fear the goat may not see another sunrise.

#FrescoFriday brings us to the #MuseoBarracco in #Rome, where a fragment of a wall painting a secco suggests a #Dionysiac event later on, and the #goat she's bringing may be doomed to a wild #sparagmos, a "rending limb from limb". (No goats were harmed in making this post.) #AncientBluesky 🏺

En segundo lugar esta #SpectralVoice con #Sparagmos. Lo más increíble es que son las mismas personas en ambas bandas.