Bacchic

Anonymous Italian Sculptor imitating the Antique
Bacchante
ca. 1500
marble relief
(Napoleonic loot seized in Turin)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Venetian Painter
Bacchanal
ca. 1540
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Pietro Mera (il Fiammingo)
Bacchanalia
ca. 1590-1600
oil on copper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn
Venus and Cupid riding Satyrs
ca. 1602-1608
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Antonio Tempesta
Triumph of Bacchus
before 1630
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giulio Carpioni
Bacchanal
ca. 1638
oil on canvas
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina

Mattia Preti (il Cavalier Calabrese)
Bacchanal
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Museo Bardini, Florence

Giovanni Belloni
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1665-70
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Charles Poerson
Silenus supported by Bacchanalian Revelers
before 1667
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Gerard van Opstal
Drunken Silenus
before 1668
ivory relief
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Paolo Pagani
Bacchic Figure in Lunette
ca. 1700
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Gérard de Lairesse
Bacchanal
before 1711
drawing (sketch)
British Museum

Francesco Zuccarelli
Bacchanal
ca. 1740-50
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Louis-Gustave Taraval
Bacchante in Niche with Candelabrum
ca. 1776
drawing
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Guglielmo Plüschow
Bacchic Youth on Leopard Skin
ca. 1890-1900
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ivor Hele
Studies for a Bacchante
1929
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

John Clem Clarke
Bacchanal
ca. 1970
lithograph
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

On Lot's Wife Turned to Salt

This is a tomb, no corpse within:

This is a corpse, no tomb without:

Corpse-shell self-tombed, self in self.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Andrew Miller