Bacchus, the god of wine, stands isolated in a landscape. Grapes and vines are visible on the cliff below his saucer-shaped cup with long stems. The artist represents the decadent deity as a fully naked adult man with a slight belly and the face and curls of a boy. The strange juxtaposition suits a figure symbolising pleasure, frivolity and excess. Although Annibale would go on to paint Bacchus-themed frescoes at the Farnese Palace in Rome, this painting dates from an earlier, brief stay in Venice in 1590-1591. The rigid gaze and brilliant illumination of the wine god are reminiscent of the style of the great Venetian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese. The original location and patron are unknown, and it is possible that Annibale painted it as a personal exercise.
Annibale Carracci (Bologna, 3 November 1560 - Rome, 15 July 1609) was an Italian painter and engraver. In Bologna, with his cousin Ludovico and brother Agostino, he opened the Eclectic School or the "School of Carracci". He was one of the founders of the art movement that became known as the Bolognese School.
Annibale Carracci's works belong to the Baroque, although there is interweaving with classicist elements.
                                
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