Wikimedia Commons

File:WLA ima Demeter.jpg

Original file ‎(2,128 × 2,832 pixels, file size: 812 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Description

Demeter
Creation date ca. 340B.C.
Materials marble
Dimensions H: 18 3/4 in.
Location Art of Antiquity, Medieval Gallery
Credit line Purchased by the Art Association from the legacy of J. Anton Scherrer in memory of Josephine Turner Scherrer and Adolph Turner Scherrer
Accession number 61.34
http://www.imamuseum.org/explore/artwork/2545

The goddess would have once rested on a staff with grain or a libation bowl in her outstretched hand. She represents Persephone or her mother Demeter, both goddesses of the harvest. In myth, Persephone was abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld, and while Demeter sought her, the earth withered. Zeus decreed that Persephone spend two-thirds of the year with her mother, corresponding to the growing season, and the other third, winter, in the underworld.

Wikipedia Loves Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

This photo of item # 61.34 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art was contributed under the team name "Opal_Art_Seekers_4" as part of the Wikipedia Loves Art project in February 2009.
Indianapolis Museum of Art

The original photograph on Flickr was taken by Forever Wiser—please add a comment to the original Flickr page whenever a use has been made on Wikipedia or another project.
Project galleries on Flickr: this institution, this team
Date Taken in February 2009
Source Uploaded from the Wikipedia Loves Art photo pool on Flickr
Author Wikipedia Loves Art participant "Opal_Art_Seekers_4"
Permission
(Reusing this file)
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on September 2009 by the administrator or reviewer Kaldari, who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current00:53, 31 December 2009Thumbnail for version as of 00:53, 31 December 20092,128 × 2,832 (812 KB)File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs){{subst:WLA/temp|desc={{WLA|org=ima|id=61.34|ref=|team=Opal_Art_Seekers_4|username=Forever Wiser|userid=24539240@N02|flickr=3317549188|com=Demeter<br /> Creation date ca. 340B.C.<br /> Materials marble<br /> Dimensions H: 18 3/4 in.<br /> Location Art of

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:WLA_ima_Demeter.jpg&oldid=592996026"