Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Bacchus

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Bacchus
Image View: 
Detail, feet of Bacchus on the sculpted base
Creator: 
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian sculptor, 1475-1564)
Location: 
repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Via del Proconsolo, 4
GPS: 
+43.770423+11.257947
Date: 
1496-1497 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Renaissance
Work Type 1: 
sculpture (visual work)
Classification: 
sculpture
Material: 
marble
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Measurements: 
203 cm (height)
Description: 
Cardinal Raffaele Riario summoned Michelangelo to Rome in the summer of 1496 and ordered the figure of Bacchus. The statue was initially designed to compliment Riario’s collection of antiquities, but for unknown reasons it entered the collection of Jacopo Galli in 1497 and was exhibited in his garden. The Bacchus was undoubtedly conceived as an exercise in the Antique. As a garden statue, it is superficially untypical of Michelangelo, being a free-standing group, designed to be viewed in the round; most of Michelangelo’s surviving works were conceived for architectural settings with restricted viewpoints. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-MB-NMB-B-A28
Rights: 
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