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Bacchus (Leonardo)

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The overpainting transformed the image of St. John into one of a pagan deity, by converting the long-handled cross-like staff of the Baptist to a Bacchic thyrsus and adding a vine wreath. The fur robe is the legacy of John the Baptist, but has been overpainted with leopard-spots relating, like the
251:, Edinburgh. It depicts St John the Baptist in Wilderness. However, the saint is placed to a background of grotto with some sight of high rocks, a river, riders and a hanged man. Another copy of 15th-16th centuries is held at Musee Ingres, Montauban. Another copy, attributed to follower of 673: 1191: 870: 912: 336:
No. 950 (May 1982:266, 281–288) p. 285; the badly smudged and damaged red chalk drawing, conserved in the Museo del Santuario del Sacro Monte, Varese, is illustrated p.284, fig. 27.
168:. The painting shows a male figure with garlanded head and leopard skin, seated in an idyllic landscape. He points with his right hand off to his left, and with his left hand grasps his 1160: 1284: 627: 509: 826: 1274: 877: 1181: 763: 480: 455: 777: 545: 1199: 1176: 221:, but a type of Leonardo's invention, of a disconcerting, somewhat ambiguous sensuality, familiar in Leonardo's half-length and upward-pointing 1224: 366: 217:
was so at variance with artistic conventions in portraying the Baptist – neither the older ascetic prophet nor the Florentine baby
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assigns the drawing to Leonardo's second Milan period. Among the Lombard painters who have been suggested as possible authors are
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in 1625, that it had neither devotion, decorum nor similitude, the suavely beautiful, youthful and slightly androgynous
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Cesare is most often credited with the best of three copies of this work in its original formulation, on loan to the
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Bacchus is seen here after recent restoration work. Colors closer to original and details are better visible again.
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S.J. Freedberg, "A Recovered Work of Andrea del Sarto with Some Notes on a Leonardesque Connection"
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See Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, "Giovannino Battista: A Study in Renaissance Religious Symbolism"
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Leonardo da Vinci : l'Angelo incarnato & Salai = the Angel in the flesh & Salai
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177 cm × 115 cm (70 in × 45 in)
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
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Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (Milan)
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remarked of the painting in its former state, which he saw at
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wreath, to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and intoxication.
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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
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Index

Bacchus (painting)

Francesco Melzi
Leonardo da Vinci
Oil on walnut panel
transferred to canvas
Louvre
Paris

Musée du Louvre
Paris
France
Italian Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Francesco Melzi
Sydney J. Freedberg
Cesare da Sesto
Marco d'Oggiono
Francesco Melzi
Cesare Bernazzano
thyrsus
John the Baptist
Bacchus
Angelo incarnato
Salaì
Cassiano dal Pozzo
Fontainebleau
Saint John the Baptist
Leonardeschi
Bernardino Lanino

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