The Hope Dionysus is a statue of

Dionysus In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; grc, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre. The Romans ...

, the god of wine, wearing a

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skin and casually stretching his left arm over a smaller figure of a woman, in a

Neo Attic Neo-Attic or Atticizing is a sculptural style, beginning in Hellenistic sculpture and vase-painting of the 2nd century BC and climaxing in Roman art of the 2nd century AD, copying, adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and stat ...

or archaic pos

This statue, 82 in. (2.1 m) high, dates to between 27 BC and 68 AD. It was once owned by the 18th-century British antiquities collector Thomas Hope (1769–1831), Thomas Hope (hence the name), and later belonged to a descendant of

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the leading inte ...

, before being acquired by the

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in 199

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''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide''
a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art containing information on Hope Dionysus (page 308) Neo-Attic sculptures Sculptures of Dionysus Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art {{NewYork-sculpture-stub

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