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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Bacchus
Image View:
Detail of head with grapes and grape leaves
Creator:
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1571-1610)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 5312
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.768639 11.255214
Date:
ca. 1596-1598 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
painting
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
95 cm (height) x 85 cm (width)
Description:
Caravaggio's training was strongly influenced by Venetian and Lombard painting: from the first, he learned the use of the color, from the second, he learned the deep realism and the preference for humble and popular subjects. This last feature is observable in the Bacchus, commissioned by his patron Cardinal del Monte as a gift for the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand I and painted between 1596 and 1598. Bacchus is depicted posing and holding a cup of wine with his left hand, as if he was reflected in a mirror; it is known that Caravaggio employed mirrors (or perhaps some form of camera lucida) when painting. The painting was only rediscovered in storage at the Uffizi in 1913. (Source: Uffizi Gallery [website]; http://www.uffizi.or g/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-C-UG-B-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Bacchus