Erigone
Erigone
3D
Published 2019-10-10T08:01:40+00:00
In Greek mythology, Erigone was the daughter of Icarius of Athens.
Icarius was cordial to Dionysus, who gave his shepherds wine. They became intoxicated and killed Iacrius, thinking he had poisoned them. Erigone found his body and hanged herself over her father's grave. Dionysus was angry and punished Athens by making all of the city's maidens commit suicide in the same way. Erigone was placed in the stars at the constellation Virgo.
According to Ovid, Dionysus "deceived Erigone with false grapes", as perhaps depicted in this sculpture by Axel Leopold Cantzler (Swedish, 1832 - 1875); it is suggested that Dionysus took the form of a grape cluster to approach and seduce her.
These 3D scans have been produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates as due to inaccessible areas etc deviations from the original might occur
| Date published | 10/10/2019 |
| Complessità | Medium |
| Title | Erigone |
| Date | 1863 |
| Dimension | Height: 131 cm |
| Accession | NMSk 958 |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Medium | Marble |
| Credit | Bequest 1905, Mrs T.U. Raimo |
| Record | http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t1.collection_list.$TspTitleLink.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=3&sp=3&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=3&sp=F&sp=T&sp=0 |
| Artist | Axel Leopold Cantzler |
| Place | Nationalmuseum |
