Sick Bacchus
painting by Caravaggio
Also known as: “Self-Portrait as Bacchus”
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discussed in biography
- In Caravaggio: First apprenticeships in Rome: Pucci, Cesari, and Petrigiani
…Self-Portrait as Bacchus (also called Sick Bacchus). Both were expropriated from Cesari by Scipione Borghese, the papal nephew, in the early 1600s and have remained in the Borghese collection ever since. They are subtle and bittersweet works, the first perhaps inspired by the divine longing of the Bridegroom in the…
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