Example sentences for: bacchus

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  • Michelangelo’s works here are numerous, including his early masterpiece The Drunken Bacchus (done when he was just 21), and a Virgin and Child marble roundel (1504).

  • Via del Babuino , running north from Piazza di Spagna, is named after an ancient fountain with a statue of Silenus, the grotesque drunken follower of Bacchus, which seemed to resemble a baboon.

  • There is an intriguing ambiguity to the half-naked peasant youth posing as a Bacchus for Caravaggio (1589), but nothing complicated about the robust sexiness of the Rubens Bacchanale.

  • Look out for Veronese’s Rape of Europa and Tintoretto’s Bacchus and Ariadne and Vulcan’s Forge in the Anticollegio; a masterly allegorical series by Veronese glorifying Venice in the Sala del Collegio, where foreign ambassadors were received; and weapons and suits of armor in the Armory (Sala d’Armi).

  • The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.


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