Room 3
The bacchante is often depicted in painting as some kind of erotic, decorative toy created for the voyeur’s delight. But behind this function lurks the terrible violence of the mythological maenads with their “superpowers”, women capable of uprooting great trees with their bare hands or tearing a bull (or a man) apart. The furious maenad, that slayer of men and rebel against the patriarchal order who fascinated so many 19th-century artists, is a typical example of the image revived by contemporary female artists as a source of empowerment.
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- Autor:
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Título:
- Bacchante on a Panther, 1855
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 71.4 x 111.3 cm
- Medidas:
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, Inv. no.: 1980.238.2
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- Autor:
- Émile Lévy
- Título:
- Death of Orpheus, 1866
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 189 x 118 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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- Autor:
- Nancy Spero
- Título:
- Maenad, 1999
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- Tipo:
- Mixed media on paper, 50.2 x 62.2 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Galería Pilar Serra, Madrid, and Galerie Lelong, Paris
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