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The procession of Bacchus
Francesco de Muracirca 1760
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
"The Procession of Bacchus" must have been painted as part of an interior decor. Bacchus, god of wine and fertility, appears in a triumphal chariot drawn by panthers, accompanied by nymphs and satyrs and followed by the drunken Silenus on a donkey. The large number of elegantly agile figures evokes the great tradition of Neapolitan Baroque painting, but de Mura’s light, sometimes 17th to 18th-Century Italian Painting 153 cool colouring already anticipates Neo-Classicism.| Prestel Museum Guides - Gemäldegalerie Berlin, 2017
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Details
- Title: The procession of Bacchus
- Creator: Francesco de Mura
- Date Created: circa 1760
- Physical Dimensions: 077,4 x 115,8
- Type: Picture
- External Link: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Medium: Canvas
- Inv. No.: 1929
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-017018
- Copyright Image: Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Image by Google
- Collection: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Artist Dates: 1696 - 1782
- Acquired: 1924 Declaration of Count Achille Contini Bonacossi, Rome
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