Bacchus, Pan, and Silenus; part of the ceiling from the Palace of Pandolfo Petrucci (1451-1512), called II

Pinturicchio, Bernardino (ca. 1452-1513)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1509
Diameter:
49.2 cm  (19 3/8 in.)
overall: 483l.2 cm x 495.9 cm
Technique / Medium:
fresco, transferred to canvas and laid down on wood

Description

The work belongs to an original stucco work and a fragment of one fresco, which now are part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection (14.114.1-22). Pinturicchio designed the ceiling decoration of scenes from classical mythology for Pandolfo Petrucci, despot of Siena, about 1509, shortly after he finished working in the Piccolomini Library.

Iconclass

92L1122
Bacchus brought up by satyrs, maenads and Silenus

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Panpipe [4024]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2
Image, Website Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

RIdIM record id

6979