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Bacchante

c. 1832

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The story

Bacchantes were the female followers of Bacchus, pictured in fawnskins and ivy wreaths with a thyrsus, a pine-tipped staff. Their worship sought an ecstatic frenzy of wine, music and dance, in which the soul felt freed to commune with the god.

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Object details

Title: Bacchante
Artist: Alexey Venetsianov
Date: c. 1832
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (4248)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0715
Original image: 1369 × 2048 px
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License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Alexey Venetsianov. Bacchante. c. 1832. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (4248). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0715/