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An inscription found on a stone stele (c. 340 BC), found at Delphi, contains a paean to Dionysus, which describes the travels of Dionysus to various locations in Greece where he was honored. [40] From Thebes , where he was born, he first went to Delphi where he displayed his "starry body", and with "Delphian girls" took his "place on the folds ...
The Bacchus of Aldaia (Spanish: Baco de Aldaya) is an ancient Roman marble statuette of the Roman god Bacchus (Dionysus) that was found in La Ereta dels Moros in Aldaia, Valencia, in Spain, in two fragments between the years 1884 and 1924. [1] The god is depicted naked except for a deer skin draped over him and wearing sandals and a floral crown.
Romans identified Bacchus with their own Liber Pater, the "Free Father" of the Liberalia festival, patron of viniculture, wine and male fertility, and guardian of the traditions, rituals and freedoms attached to coming of age and citizenship, but the Roman state treated independent, popular festivals of Bacchus (Bacchanalia) as subversive ...
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The Young Sick Bacchus (Italian: Bacchino Malato), also known as the Sick Bacchus or the Self-Portrait as Bacchus, is an early self-portrait by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dated between 1593 and 1594. It now hangs in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
Bacchus is seen here after recent restoration work. Colors closer to original and details are better visible again. Bacchus, originally Saint John the Baptist, is a painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and Francesco Melzi, while in Leonardo's workshop.
The patron for Bacchus was the high-ranking Cardinal Raffaele Riario, who had previously bought Cupid (also known as Sleeping Cupid), a work made by Michelangelo but passed off as an authentic ancient sculpture. Cardinal Riario later discovered Michelangelo's fraud and demanded a refund of 200 ducats.
The Triumph of Bacchus (Greek: Ο Θρίαμβος του Βάκχου) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drinkers (also The Drunks). Velázquez painted The Triumph of Bacchus after arriving in Madrid from Seville and just before his voyage to Italy.