Bacchus (Caravaggio)

Caravaggio is a pioneer of the Italian Baroque style. Their art was not widely different to Italian Renaissance painting but the color palette was richer and darker.

Caravaggio was as controversial for his revolutionary artworks as he was for his infamous temper and lengthy police record. He ignored the rules that artists from the previous century had followed and instead developed a love of realism and his emotional directness was unrivaled.

Bacchus is the Roman name for the Greek god Dionysus. This effeminate god of wine, madness and ecstasy often appears in scenes of revelry and licentiousness. In his Bacchus, Caravaggio shows the god as a seventeenth-century Italian teenager, offering the viewer wine, spoiled fruit and perhaps something more.

This paint has proved to be one of the biggest quarrels amongst historians when discussing Caravaggio's works: in an age where sodomy was a crime punishable by death, would any artist in his right mind execute an overtly homoerotic work and would a patron actually pay for it? Are we mistakenly seeing this late sixteenth-century painting through modern eyes?

Regardless of the critical debate, any objective viewer would be able to pick up on the erotic overtones in the Bacchus. However, no ultimate judgment can be made about the sexuality of Caravaggio or of him patron Cardinal del Monte.

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