Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Bacchus
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Bacchus
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Image View:
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Detail of head with grapes and grape leaves
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Creator:
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1571-1610)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 5312
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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ca. 1596-1598 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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95 cm (height) x 85 cm (width)
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Description:
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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.org/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-C-UG-B-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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