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Masquerading the satyrs and hamadryads as famous characters in the history of art is the primary burlesque idea of the Petite Commande.
He is said to have come from the East, with his maenads, fauns, satyrs, and wine lunacy.
This Tremolo offshoot's good-time electronica sounds like a Nintendo system haunted by fairies and satyrs.
Sea foam and a large whirling wave submerge Renaissance-style domes, while muscled, skirted satyrs on horseback attempt to ride upstream.
His following is made up of satyrs and sileni and maenads, who seem possessed or intoxicated.
In keeping with the theme of the game, many are drawn from mythology, such as harpies, Minotaurs, skeletal centaurs, satyrs et al.
The youthful naked satyrs, dancing contentedly with their scantily clad female partners, are no longer shown ithyphallic.
The Petite Commande, a suite of statues of satyrs and hamadryads, embodied the rustic character of the place.
Running to the sound, she found a group of travelers about to fall to a band of satyrs.
These scenes may have Dionysiac associations and bring to mind the amorous encounters between satyrs and maenads.
The bacchanal theme is underlined by the presence of a large ewer placed above and behind the satyrs on a pillar.
Nymphs and satyrs in Florentine bronze smirked and capered in the recesses of the pale gray wall, relieved by mouldings and medallions in unburnished gold.
Mimic horses, satyrs, bird figures, and other animal imitations were much in evidence.
For many years, the painter had specialised in bucolic themes starring nymphs and satyrs.
Meadow grass harbors the tiny caterpillars of ringlets and satyrs.
Dionysos and his satyrs, nymphs, and maenads are, of course, found everywhere in the ancient world, but they appear most frequently in dining rooms and gardens.
However, if you are close to a woodland, there are some shade-loving butterflies, such as the satyrs, that will only be present if there is some shade available.
Clodion worked mostly in terra-cotta, his preferred subject matter being nymphs, satyrs, bacchantes, and other Classical figures sensually portrayed.
An attribute of Dionysus and his satyrs was the thyrsus, a staff topped by a pinecone and sometimes further decorated with vine or ivy leaves and grapes.
Nymphs and satyrs frolic over the ceiling in a salon reserved to males.
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The faces of the two satyrs and the head of the thyrsus are also much mutilated.
It is an ideal medium with which to recreate the fauns, satyrs and nymphs of the garden.
He was the son of Pan, and the oldest of the satyrs, who were supposed to be half goat.
And hard by the raving satyrs went through the sacred rites of the Mother Goddess.
But here in her direst need Una found new friends in a troupe of fauns and satyrs who were playing in the forest.
The satyrs are represented as being of the microcephalic type.
And then there were the satyrs and centaurs, and suchlike beings.
And fauns and nymphs and satyrs echoed that shout most joyously.
Bacchus was the god of wine, said to have been born of a union between Zeus and the human, Semele and raised on Mount Nysa in the company of nymphs and satyrs.
Neptune was already unsubstantial in the twilight, half god, half ghost, and his fountain plashed dreamily to the men and satyrs who idled together on its marge.
Satyrs are beastlike creatures frequently portrayed as part horse or goat and giving free reign to prodigious sexual appetites.
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