Editing Silenus (section)

===In art===
In the [[Renaissance]], a [[court dwarf]] posed for the Silenus-like figure astride a tortoise at the entrance to the [[Boboli Gardens]], Florence. [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]] painted [[:Image:Rubens Der trunkene Silen.jpg|''The Drunken Silenus'']] (1616–17), now conserved in the [[Alte Pinakothek]], Munich – the subject was also treated by [[Drunken Silenus (van Dyck)|van Dyck]] and [[Drunken Silenus (Ribera)|Ribera]].

During the late 19th century in Germany and Vienna, symbolism from ancient Greece was reinterpreted through a new [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] prism. Around the same time, [[Vienna Secession]] artist [[Gustav Klimt]] uses the irreverent, chubby-faced Silenus as a motif in several works to represent "buried instinctual forces".<ref>[[Carl Emil Schorske|Carl Schorske]] ''[[Fin-de-Siècle Vienna|Fin-de-Siècle Vienna – Politics and Culture]]'', 1980, page 221</ref>

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Piero di Cosimo - Bacco scoperto miele.jpg|[[Piero di Cosimo]]: ''[[The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus]]'', {{circa|1499}} ([[Worcester Art Museum]], [[Worcester, Massachusetts]])
Piero di cosimo, disavventure di sileno.jpg|Piero di Cosimo: ''The Misfortunes of Silenus'', {{circa|1500}} ([[Fogg Museum]], [[Harvard University]])
Peter Paul Rubens - Sleeping Silenus.jpg|[[Peter Paul Rubens]] and [[David Rijckaert II]]: ''Sleeping Silenus'', {{circa|1611}} ([[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]])
File:Jusepe de Ribera Drunken Silenus.jpg|[[Jusepe de Ribera]]: ''[[Drunken Silenus (Ribera)|Drunken Silenus]]'', 1626 ([[Museo di Capodimonte]], [[Naples]])
File:Boudard Gruppo del Sileno.jpg|Jean-Baptiste Boudard: ''Group of the Silen'', marble sculpture in the Ducal Park, [[Parma]], 1766
File:Dalou Triomphe de Silène CP.jpg|[[Jules Dalou]]: ''Triomphe de Silène'', bronze sculpture, [[Jardin du Luxembourg]], Paris, 1897
Silenius with Some Perfect Ladies of Phrygia Gave a Cocktail Party.jpg|Rupert Bunny: ''Silenus with Some Perfect Ladies of Phrygia Gave a Cocktail Party'', {{circa|1938}}
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[[File:Silenus Braccio Nuovo Inv2292.jpg|thumb|Silenus with the child Dionysos, marble statue, Roman copy of the middle 2nd century AD after a Greek original by Lysippos ({{circa|300 BC}})]]