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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Bacchanales: The Satyr's Dance

1763
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On the left side of the composition, standing inside a large vessel like an umbrella in a vestibule, is a pinecone-topped staff called a thyrsus. Thyrsi were carried by Bacchus and his followers.

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