Bacchus

by SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

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At the age of 21 Michelangelo went to Rome for the first time. In the five years that he spent here only two works were finished, the Bacchus and La Pieta. The statue of Bacchus was commissioned by the banker Jacopo Galli for this garden, ordering it to be fashioned after the models of the ancients. The body of this drunken and staggering god gives and impression of both youthfulness and femininity. Vasari says that this strange blending of effects is the characteristic of the Greek god Dionysu