Bacchanal
by CARPIONI, Giulio, Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm
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.