The triumph of Bacchus

Bos, Cornelis (ca. 1510-before 1566)

Heemskerck, Maerten van (1498-1574) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1543

Height:

30.2 cm  (11 7/8 in.)

Width:

86.5 cm  (34 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

engraving, on paper

Place of creation:

Flanders

Description

A corpulent Bacchus is seated on a cart drawn by an exhausted horse behind an orgiastic crowd of naked, drunken satyrs, maenads, and revelers. Some of the people are carrying baskets or urns of grapes. In the center of the crowd, there are musicians playing a flute and a trumpet. A round temple with a dome is on the right, and the altar and statue are visible in the center between the columns. A castle on a hill appears in the background.

Iconclass

92L178
triumph of Bacchus; 'Carro di Bacco' (Ripa)
92L1791
bacchanal: Bacchus with his wine-flushed train (thiasos)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]
End-blown trumpet [6556]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5446