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Bacchus (c.1596) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). It is held in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2361, 404 KB) Description: Title: de: Bacchus Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 95 × 85 cm Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Florenz Current location (gallery): de: Galleria degli Uffizi Other notes: de: Auftraggeber: Kardinal Francesco Maria...
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The Uffizi Gallery (Italian: Galleria degli Uffizi) is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world. ...
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Caravaggio re-directs here; for alternate uses see Caravaggio (disambiguation) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), often short Caravaggio after his hometown, was an Italian Baroque painter, whose large religious works portrayed saints and other biblical figures as ordinary people. ...
The Uffizi Gallery (Italian: Galleria degli Uffizi) is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world. ...
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The painting shows a youthful Bacchus reclining in Classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves in his hair, fingering the drawstring of his loosely-draped robe. On a stone table in front of him is a bowl of fruit and a large carafe of red wine; with his left hand he holds out to the viewer a shallow goblet of the same wine, apparently inviting us to join him. Bacchus is the name of: the Roman god Bacchus, known to the Greeks as Dionysus the Christian martyr Saint Bacchus, companion to Saint Sergius; see: Saint Sergius the asteroid 2063 Bacchus the Bacchus grape variety, grown predominantly in Germany the Bacchus (painting) by Leonardo da Vinci the comic book Bacchus...
Bacchus was painted shortly after Caravaggio joined the household of Cardinal Del Monte, his first important patron, and reflects the humanist interests of the Cardinal's educated circle. Whether intentional or not, there's a lot of humour in this painting: this pink-faced Bacchus is a pretty accurate portrayal of a half-drunk teenager dressed in a sheet and leaning on a mattress in the Cardinal's Rome palazzo, but far less convincing as a Graeco-Roman god. The ripples on the surface of his wine look ominous: he won't be able to hold this pose much longer, and the artist had better hurry up and finish the left hand. Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ...
The fruit and the carafe have attracted more scholarly attention than Bacchus himself. The fruit, because of the inedible condition of most of the items - the more serious-minded critics believe that this signifies the transience of worldly things (a variation of carpe diem perhaps). The carafe, because when the painting was cleaned, a tiny portrait of the artist was discovered, reflected in the glass, working at his easel. This article is about the Latin phrase. ...
The fact that Bacchus is offering the wine with his left hand, despite the obvious effort this is causing the model, has led to speculation that Caravaggio used a mirror to assist himself while working from life, doing away with the need for drawing. In other words, what appears to us as the boy's left hand was actually his right. This would accord with the comment by Caravaggio's early biographer, the artist Giovanni Baglione, that Caravaggio did some early paintings using a mirror. The English artist David Hockney made Caravaggio's working methods a central feature of his thesis that Renaissance and later artists used some form of camera lucida. Giovanni Baglione, 1566-1643, was an early baroque painter and historian of art in Rome, known for his animosity towards Caravaggio. ...
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A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. ...
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