Tribute to Caravaggio - Bacco revisited
Hello! My name is Bacco (in English Liber or Bacchus) and I’m the god of wine, according to the Roman classical mythology. I’m also know as Dionysus, one of the twelve Olympians of the Greek mythology.
I’m famous because of my madness, compared with the other Olympians. I’m a a red-hot womanizer. That’s why I’m still in fashion. Artists love me.
My present residence is in the greatest museums all over the world. The work of art I love more is Bacchus (roll over the pic to the left) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, a great Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily during the XVII century. He’s considered the first great representative of the Baroque school of painting.
Caravaggio’s fresco and canvas are characterized by his chiaroscuro tecnique, in which shadows, and notably lights, are the key. As for istance, in the “Vocazione di S.Matteo” in Contarelli Chapel (San Luigi dei Francesi Church in Rome), the beam of light, which enters the canvas from an open-ended direction (not from the window) represents God, and expresses the conversion of St Matthew.
what a nice illustration!
Congratulations!
And cheers!!!
Dear Mirta,
IMHO, associating Bacchus/Dionysus to Caravaggio is a pretty cool thing to do, not only because he produced a painting of the god but also because Caravaggio was himself a wild genius, a Dionysus fan himself.
I have tried hard to be bad with you, but I’ve failed. What is surprising is Caravaggio’s “turn” to Dionysus, a pagan god, after all those inimitable paintings inspired by religion.
Dionysus would have enjoyed your dissacrating version of the painting!! But why “would have”? He surely does. Keep up the inspired work!
Congratulations!