Bacchanal with Silenus
1481
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 28.8 × 43.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192860
This print was probably conceived by Andrea Mantegna as the right side of Bacchanal with a Wine Vat, which shows Bacchus crowned. Here, the central figure is also crowned, but unlike the wine god, he appears saturated with drink. The scene may come from the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BCE). He described Bacchus’s teacher, Silenus, roused from a drunken sleep by two satyrs and a maenad and incited to sing so that his companions could dance. Silenus’s great wisdom was said to be generated by wine, but Renaissance artists more typically portrayed him as the embodiment of overindulgence.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King, 1924.223
Registry history
- 1481 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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