Bacchus

Michelangelo, 1497

Marble, height 203 cm

Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Bacchus (1497) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo. The statue is somewhat over life-size and depicts Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, in an appropriately inebriated state. Along with the Pietà it is one of only two sculptures than can be attributed with any certainty to the artist's first period in Rome. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564) was a Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. ... The Bargello palace was built in 1255 to host Florence ( Italy) City Council. ... 1497 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... marble sculpture Marble sculpture is the art of creating three-dimensional forms from marble. ... By Region: Italian Renaissance Northern Renaissance -French Renaissance -German Renaissance -English Renaissance The Renaissance was a great cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. ... Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564) was a Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. ... Bacchus by Caravaggio Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ... Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with alcohol (i. ... This article is about the most famous Pietà Florentine Pietà (or Deposition), the Rondanini Pietà and the Palestrina Pietà The Pietà (1498–99) by Michelangelo is a marble sculpture in St. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2. ...

Bacchus is depicted with rolling eyes, his staggering body almost teetering off the rocky outcrop on which he stands. Sitting behind him is a faun, who eats the bunch of grapes slipping out of his left hand. The figure, with its swollen breast and abdomen, suggested to Giorgio Vasari 'both the slenderness of a young man and the fleshiness and roundness of a woman', and its androgynous quality has often been noted (although the testicles are swollen as well). Michelangelo's depiction of Bacchus in this manner was influenced by classical texts. A faun, as painted by Hungarian painter Pál Szinyei Merse In Roman mythology, fauns were place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. ... Giorgio Vasaris selfportrait Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ... David Bowie incorporated an androgynous look into his stage persona Ziggy Stardust Androgyny refers to two concepts. ...

Michelangelo gave the sculpture a high centre of gravity which, along with the symbolic wreath of vines, gives the impression of drink having 'gone to his head'. Similarly precarious poses can be found in a number of later works by the artist, most notably the David and the figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michelangelos David, finished by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1504 (started in 1501) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture and one of Michelangelos two greatest works of sculpture, along with the Pietà. David portrays the Biblical David at the moment that he decides to engage Goliath. ... Image:Lightmatter Sistine Chapel Ceiling. ...

Bacchus holds in his right hand a goblet of wine and in his left a tigerskin, an animal associated with the god 'for its love of the grape' (according to Michelangelo's biographer Ascanio Condivi). Both the goblet and the penis were cut off at one point; only the goblet was restored (the mutilation may have been to enhance the 'classical' appearance of the sculpture). Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four big cats in the Panthera genus. ...

The statue was commissioned for the garden of Cardinal Raffaelo Riario who intended for it to compliment his collection of classical sculptures. It was rejected by Cardinal Riario and found its way to the collection of Japoco Galli, banker to both the cardinal and Michelangelo, who had a similar garden. The statue was transferred to Florence in 1572. Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... Events January 16 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. ...

Reference

• Hall, James (2005). Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body. London: Chatto & Windus
• Pope-Hennessy, John (1996). Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture. London: Phaidon