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Bacchus
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Published 2020-01-15T11:59:39+00:00
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In a contract from February 1804 between Countess Vorontsova and Thorvaldsen, Thorvaldsen undertakes to make a group depicting Amor and Psyche (A27) and two sculptures depicting Bachus (A2) and Ganymede (A41).
Bacchys (or Dionysus) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.
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| Date published | 15/01/2020 |
| Complexity | Medium |
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| Title | Bacchus |
| Date | 1804 |
| Dimension | Height, 140cm |
| Accession | A2 |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Record | https://thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/collections/work/A2 |
| Artist | Bertel Thorvaldsen |
| Place | Thorvaldsens Museum |
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24 cm thanks for your sharing.