Bacchanalia

ALL HAIL BACCHUS! The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus (known as the Greek god Dionysus) the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy

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Glass and marble mosaic, symbols of Bacchus as God of Wine and the Theater

Roman Empire, Tunisia, 200-225 AD

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Bacchus (Bacchus de Versailles)

François Girardon (1628–1715), after Roman

Marble

Château de Versailles

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“Education of the Infant Bacchus”, Niccolò Amastini (Rome 1780–1851)

Onyx and gold frame, first half 19th century. 

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Ancient Greek or Roman sardonyx cameo depicting a group of Bacchic devotees.  Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE/CE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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~ Dionysos-Bacchus.

Culture: Roman

Period: Middle Imperial period

Date: A.D. 2nd century

Place of origin: Carthage, Tunisia

Medium: Dolomitic marble.

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Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) “Cupid and Bacchus” (1833-1838) Marble Currently in a private collection

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Bacchus and Ariadne Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian; 1696–1770) ca. 1743–45 Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Bacchus

1687–1693

Jean Desgoullons, Jean Raon (1630–1707)

White marble

Château de Versailles

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  Antinous as Bacchus, Roman, 2nd century AD

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Dionysus.  Sculpture of Pentelic marble by an unknown Roman artist, modeled after a number of lost Hellenistic originals.  Found in the Horti Liciniani, Rome; now in the Capitoline Museum.  Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen.

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Bacchus, plate 1 from the series Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres, by Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, c. 1595

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art 

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Triumph of Bacchus, Roman mosaic,Sousse, Tunisia.

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Too often we think of Dionysus as “jolly Bacchus,” whom the Romans in particular portrayed as the god of drinking and sexual orgies. But he was far more, a god of the dark side of humanity, of passions and the life force, companion of the Mother, a dying and rising god of the year cycle, god of the mountain rather than the city, whose followers were mainly male satyrs and female maenads (“the mad women”), who dressed in animal skins, wreathed their hair with ivy, wielded thyrsoi (poles tipped with foliage), hunted their prey on the mountainside, tore it apart, and ate the flesh raw.

Introduction by Ian  C. Storey Under “Comic Festivals and Production” For Aristophanes The Clouds (via quatschmachen)

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Vatican Museum - Dionysus (by Egisto Sani)

Edited by johnnybravo20

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An elderly satyr is followed by the young Dionysus.  South Italian red-figure bell-krater, attributed to the painter Python; ca. 350-325 BCE.  From Poseidonia (Paestum); now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit: LACMA.

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As a god of wine, Dionysos was known as Psychodaiktes ‘Destroyer of the Soul’ and Hypnophobes 'Terrifier During Sleep’ - but also Luaios 'Deliverer from Care’, Theoinos, 'Exhilarator’, and even Iatros, 'the Healer’.

Bramshaw, Dionysos Exciter to Frenzy (via entrailmix)

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Dionysos and Ariadne frieze cartoon, 2014-2015

Acrylics on prepared paper, 19.4 x 98.5cm