In 2003 the recently-restored bronze statue of a dancing satyr was displayed inwards Rome. It had been discovered a few years before inwards the ocean off the coast of Sicily. There were stories that the local fishermen had been aware of the statue for years , repeatedly discovering it inwards their nets as well as thus discarding it inwards the ocean , until mortal realised its value. The statue was belike 1 of a grouping which would accept decorated an extravagant garden - it may accept been 1 of the lesser pieces - and was presumably lost inwards a shipwreck.
After queueing to run into the statue , 1 of my visitors was thus impressed that he went away as well as wrote a sonnet. The statue has directly come upward to the Great Britain as well as it tin sack live seen until Dec inwards the Royal Academy exhibition Bronze.
Satiro Danzante
by A.R. Hammond
So hither it is: "a green-bronze naked figure
Roman or Greek , life-size , from off the coast
Of Italy". H5N1 Satyr , lacking most
Of arm or leg , alas. But however or thus vigour
Survives of that wild revelry or trip the lite fantastic -
Arched trunk , twisted caput as well as windblown pilus -
While from that lustrous confront 2 white eyes stare
As if they wake from Dionysian trance
To run into those other forms , inwards drinking glass as well as paint
And plaster , which through after-ages stood
For art: tormented sinner , martyred saint ,
Starved prophet - all our suffering for the loss
Of innocence. And always - for our Good -
That broken , blooded , body on the cross.
The statue tin sack unremarkably live seen inwards its ain museum inwards Mazara del Vallo inwards western Sicily.
