Attributable to Giulio Carpioni (Venice, 1613 - Vicenza, 1678)
Bacchanal
Oil on canvas (98 x 132 cm. - Framed 120 x 154 cm.)
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The painting, of high quality and good condition, is a refined pictorial work by Giulio Carpioni (Venice, 1613 - Vicenza, 1678), one of the most talented Venetian painters of the 17th century. It depicts a typical "Bacchanal", a favorite and recurring subject.
Specifically, it is a feast in honor of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine (or Dionysus in Greek mythology), characterized by nude or semi-nude mythological figures, such as satyrs, nymphs, maenads, and putti, who indulge in leisure and wine consumption in a natural setting, abandoning themselves to unbridled pleasures, libations, dance, music, and eroticism.
Having trained with Padovanino and in the classicism of the 16th-century Venetian tradition, Carpioni drew great inspiration from Titian's early works, especially his mythological compositions and particularly his famous Bacchantes. It was during his trip to Rome that he had the opportunity to see and study the "Bacchanal of the Andrians", now at the Prado Museum in Madrid, dating from between 1523 and 1526.
He was fascinated by the dynamic movement, the sensuality of the bodies, and the interplay of light and shadow in these works. He then took up, reworking them, many figures from Titian's painting, such as the sensual nude of the nymph reclining at the bottom left.
Moving to the right, there is then the amusing 'puer mingens' (a figure in a work of art depicted as a prepubescent boy in the act of urinating) who sprays urine at a nymph who turns away, annoyed by this mischievous gesture.
In Rome, the artist also underwent the influence of the Bamboccianti's realism, as well as the classicist ideas of Poussin, who also dedicated himself with great success to the theme of Bacchantes.
The painting presented here can be particularly compared with the Bacchanal in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, similar in size, in which the figure of the drunken, fat Silenus supported by young helpers is reproduced almost identically in the counterpart, and also with the Bacchanal from the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, in addition to the painting in the Civic Museums of Vicenza through the legacy of Carlo Vicentini Dal Giglio in 1834.
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