Lost wax bronze replica.
Author: Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Period: 1497
Bacchus is certainly one of the best known and most successful sculptures by the young Michelangelo. Although it is a youthful work, one can clearly glimpse the great artistic gifts and skills of the greatest sculptor of the Renaissance. The statue is intended to represent a toast to life, a wish for joy and well-being that is expressed in the lifting of the cup full of good wine that Bacchus holds in his hand. This bronze replica is a scale reduction of the original 200 cm high masterpiece, kept at the National Museum of the Bargello in Florence. Bacchus or Dionysus was the god of wine and the grape harvest. The cult of the bacchanal is connected to him. Bacchus is normally represented as a strong and handsome young man, holding wine or bunches of grapes and often accompanied by a young satyr.
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