Focus on Triumph of Bacchus (Wautier) and discuss the abstract.
The Triumph of Bacchus is a painting by the Walloon artist Michaelina Wautier. It was painted between 1650 and 1656 and is one of Wautier's greatest works, as well as her largest. Based on classical texts, the picture shows a procession with the drunken god Bacchus at its centre, surrounded by other humans, satyrs, and animals. It is notable for its large number of nude male figures, something uncommon from a woman artist in this period.It was possibly commissioned to be part of the large collection of art amassed by Archduke Leopold Willhelm; in any case by 1659 it was noted in an inventory of the collection.It now hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
satyr Kunsthistorisches Museum Archduke Leopold Willhelm Bacchus Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Michaelina Wautier