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Advertising Poster Theatre Laughing Bacchus Skull
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Original vintage advertising poster featuring an artwork depicting a man as a Bacchus with a crown of roses, laughing in the foreground while a skull can be seen in the background behind him. This might have been the artwork for a poster for a theatre play, and it is signed 'Soller' in the bottom right corner. Dionysus or Dionysos is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth. He is also known as Bacchus, the name adopted by the Romans; the frenzy he induces is bakkheia. His thyrsus, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. As Eleutherios ("the liberator"), his wine, music and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself. Fair condition, folded as issued, tears and paper losses in margins. Country: Unknown, year of printing: 1930s, designer: Soller, size (cm): 86x61
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Original vintage advertising poster featuring an artwork depicting a man as a Bacchus with a crown of roses, laughing in the foreground while a skull can be seen in the background behind him. This might have been the artwork for a poster for a theatre play, and it is signed 'Soller' in the bottom right corner. Dionysus or Dionysos is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth. He is also known as Bacchus, the name adopted by the Romans; the frenzy he induces is bakkheia. His thyrsus, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. As Eleutherios ("the liberator"), his wine, music and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself. Fair condition, folded as issued, tears and paper losses in margins. Country: Unknown, year of printing: 1930s, designer: Soller, size (cm): 86x61
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