Hamadryad - San Marino, CA
Posted by: Metro2
N 34° 07.609 W 118° 06.774
11S E 397376 N 3776776
Located in the Huntington Art Gallery
Waymark Code: WMQE1C
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/13/2016
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The Huntington Art Gallery is part of the Huntington Library.
This sculpture depicts a tree nymph called a "Hamadryad". The artist is Antoine Coysevox and is dated late 19th or early 20th century.
Wikipedia (
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"A hamadryad ... is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees. They are a particular type of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a certain tree. Some believe that hamadryads are the actual tree, while normal dryads are simply the entities, or spirits, of the trees. If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For that reason, dryads and the gods punished any mortals who harmed trees."