Greece

Two figures dancing round a deity

Painting

-1800 B.C., approximately

Pamphaios Painter

Maenad dancing in front of Dionysos. Satyrs playing chelys and double flute

Painting, vase, black-figure

-530 B.C., approximately

Curti Painter Dionysos with maenad and satyr

Painting on vase

-450 B.C., approximately

Dionysos with a rhyton, seated on a diphros, among two satyrs and two maenads dancing

Painting, vase

-300 B.C., approximately

Arhena Painter (attributed)

Hercules playing a double flute, between two nude dancing Satyrs

Painting, Attic black-figure vase

-490 B.C., approximately

Young man leading three young women to dance

Sculpture, relief on marble

-350 B.C., approximately

Boy leading girls to dance

Sculpture, relief on marble

-350 B.C., approximately

Seated flutist and three women dancing

Sculpture, relief on marble

-350 B.C., approximately

Flutist marching before three dancing women

Sculpture, relief on marble

-320 B.C., approximately

Bacchic dance by satyr and maenad playing cymbals

Mosaic

-280 B.C., approximately

Woman dancer and Dionysus; maenad dancing and flutist. Attic psykter vase with red figure painting

Painting, vase

-200 B.C., approximately

Dionysos between two dancers; amphor vase

Painting, vase

-200 B.C., approximately

Three Graces (Euphrosyne, Aglaia, Thaleia) 3 Nymphs (Ismini, Kykais, Eranno) and TilosIsland dancing

Sculpture, relief, marble

-100 B.C., approximately

Scène bacchique (Bacchic scene)

Sculpture, relief

100 approximately

Silene and maenad dancing

Sculpture, relief, silver, gilt

620 approximately

Two male dancers

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

800 approximately

The sons and daughters of Job dining. Two male dancers in the foreground

Painting, manuscript illumination, miniature

1080 approximately

Female dancer and three musicians

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1100 approximately

Salome dancing

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1100 approximately

Five women dancing; zourna player

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1250 approximately

The mocking of Christ – detail

Painting, fresco, mural

1500 approximately

The sons Corré and apostle Paul

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1600 approximately

Statues dancing and priest

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1600 approximately

Statues dancing and Cyrus

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1600 approximately

Eight girls dancing and two musicians in a scene from “Praise the Lord”

Painting, mural, fresco

1620 approximately

Praise the Lord, psalm

Painting, mural

1631

Four maidens dancing, “Praise ye the Lord” scene”

Painting, mural, fresco

1637

Lorrain, Claude

Scenery with dancing satyr and figures

Painting, oil on canvas

1641  

Lorrain, Claude

Scenery with satyrs and nymphs dancing

Painting, oil on canvas

1647

Praise the Lord

Painting, mural

1650 approximately

Lisse, Dirk van der

The dancing

Painting

1665 approximately

Four young women in a vigorous dance. Scene from “Praise ye the Lord”

Painting, mural, fresco

1715

Mariam and the virgins dancing

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1725 approximately

The Last Judgement

Painting, mural

1750 approximately

Eight maidens dancing. “Praise ye the Lord” scene”

Painting, mural, fresco

1752

Maidens dancing in line

Painting, mural

1758

Seven women in a line dance. “Praise ye the Lord” scene”

Painting, mural, fresco

1760

Three maidens dancing, the last one holding a handkerchief, “Praise ye the Lord” scene

Painting, mural, fresco

1774

Girls dancing at the beheading of Saint John

Painting, mural, fresco

1779

Three young men and three maidens dancing. A scene from “Praise the Lord”

Painting, mural, fresco

1779

Maidens dancing

Painting, mural

1800 approximately

Thorvaldsen, Bertel

Dance of the Muses on Helicon

Sculpture, relief

1804

Dancing dervish

Print, color, lithograph

1838

Bacchus, bas-relief en marbre  

Print

1847

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Dervishes dancing

Print, wood

1850 approximately

Gysis, Nicolas

Dance of the Muses

Drawing, pencil and pastel on paper

1880 approximately

Bouguereau, William (painting)

La jeunesse de Bacchus (Bacchus in his youth)

Print, woodcut

1884

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Vyzantios, Pericles

“Salome’s dance” by Oscar Wilde

Painting, tempera

1925

Vyzantios, Pericles

Dance of the Oceanides

Drawing

1928

Dance of Apollo and the Muses

Print, colour

1930 approximately

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

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