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Khan Academy: Statue of Dionysos Leaning on a Female Figure ("Hope Dionysos")

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In this video [2:41] Met curator Carlos A. Picon on oblivion in Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ["Hope Dionysos"), restored by Vincenzo Pacetti, 27 B.C.E.-68 C.E. The head is ancient but from another statue. Restorations by the eighteenth-century Italian sculptor Vincenzo Pacetti: [on Dionysos) ivy wreath, neck, both arms, lower right leg, calf and boot of left leg, hanging drapery on right side; [on the archaistic image) uplifted corner of drapery, both arms, lower half of lower legs, feet, pedestal, entire base.

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