Bacchus and a Drinker - Manfredi Acrylic Print

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Bacchus and a Drinker, Bartolomeo Manfredi. Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

This splendid chiaroscuro can be admired at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, in Rome.

This painting was considered to be Caravaggio's until 1924.

Painted around 1600, the early date of the Bacchus, an allegorical subject that recalls Caravaggio's earliest works, places us at the beginning of the artist's development of a so-called "Manfredian Method". The body of work to which this term refers is derived from the great Caravaggesque prototypes, and focuses on drinkers, game-players, gypsies, and tavern scenes. The style enjoyed a notable popularity in the second and third decades of the seventeenth century. This genre was particularly wide-spread, probably on account of its suitability to the transmission of allegorical and moral messages. The figure of Bacchus, derived from the models of ancient statuary and sarcophagi is probably also inspired by a lost prototype by Caravaggio, cited...

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