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Description: | The small oil painting depicts a half-length figure of the young Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. Bacchus is slightly inebriated and gazes sweetly at a glass of wine, his head crowned with vine leaves. The painting appears to have been cut down and its sketchy character indicates that it may have been a preliminary work. On stylistic grounds it has been attributed to Annibale Carracci, the most gifted of a family of painters, who achieved great success in the late sixteenth century with his frescoes on the theme of the Loves of the Gods for the Farnese Palace in Rome. | Subjects: | figure; mythology (Bacchus); still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Carracci, Annibale (Italian painter, 1560-1609) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8551... | Go to resource |
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