Bacchus
by PIERINO DA VINCI, Bronze, height 17 cm
In 1546-47 Pierino stayed in Rome for about a year. The only surviving works that can reasonably be ascribed to Pierino’s Roman period, although possibly begun in Florence, are the pair of bronze statuettes of Pomona and Bacchus, on a bronze base (height 13 cm) that carries the inscription MDXLVII - OPERA DI PIERO DA VINCI, in the Ca’ d’Oro, Venice.