# Bacchanal

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CARPIONI, Giulio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm

## Commentary

This unfinished painting represents a bacchanal, a celebration in honour of Bacchus, god of wine and of mystic delirium. Such celebrations had a licentious and orgiastic character. In the painting we see groups of fauns and nymphs, some dancing, others reclining, within a setting of classical ruins and an idealized landscape.

## Related artworks

- [Apollo and Marsyas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/apollo-and-marsyas-rb4e9574b1bca70>)
- [Bacchanal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/bacchanal-rba2d11d26f5225>)
- [Corner candelabrum \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/corner-candelabrum-detail-r11071812f98d86>)
- [Corner candelabrum \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/corner-candelabrum-detail-rf95c4e7f6d1dcc>)
- [Crucifixion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/crucifixion-rd0fe2f1c1ec0e2>)
- [Liriope Bringing Narcissus before Tiresias](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/liriope-bringing-narcissus-before-tiresias-r7bbe0cdb141113>)
- [The Coronation of the Nymph Amaryllis, Winner of the Kissing Competition](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/the-coronation-of-the-nymph-amaryllis-winner-of-the-kissing-competition-r41bf4839def0be>)
- [The Pursuit of Corsica by a Satyr](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/the-pursuit-of-corsica-by-a-satyr-r511d4af58e3c8e>)
- [View of a wall in the Pastor Fido camerino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/view-of-a-wall-in-the-pastor-fido-camerino-r8c2d128fa72f30>)
- [View of a wall in the Pastor Fido camerino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/view-of-a-wall-in-the-pastor-fido-camerino-rb04581cc2e9149>)
- [View of the Pastor Fido camerino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/view-of-the-pastor-fido-camerino-r81e1f734663aab>)
- [Wounding of Dorinda, Mistaken by the Shepherd Silvio for One of His Prey](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/carpioni-giulio-rdfc2281a8497b7/wounding-of-dorinda-mistaken-by-the-shepherd-silvio-for-one-of-his-prey-r76c4f15a34c028>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)