The base of the bell tower include antique elements, such a bas-relief with a Maenad, dating from the 1st century AD.
The 12 statues were figures from classical mythology: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Hercules, Pomona, Bacchante, Hebe, Flora Farnese, Leda, Mercury and Flora.
Couperus biographer, Frédéric Bastet, described Couperus' poems as: Bacchantes, odalisques, sirens and eunuchs populate this Parnassiens-poetry, but they remain opera characters without much content.
It is preceded by a symbolic ceremony when the Roman wine god Bacchus and his Maenads receive the keys to the town from the local authorities.
He frescoed bacchantes and Maenads with an Aurora in the grand room of the casa Poreti in Milan; also decorative frescoes for the casa Scotti in Ponte San Pietro, for the casa Casati in Como, for the casa dei Conti Leonardi in Novara, in a Medolago in casa dei conti Medolago in Medolago, for the casa dei conti Borromeo in Viggiù; and Pallanza (now part of Verbania as well as Pavia,
In this case the painter chose to mainly focus on departure scenes, and scenes of the God Dionysus with maenads and satyrs.
Sookie Stackhouse notes the thyrsus carried by the maenad in the 2nd book of The Southern Vampire Mysteries.