Dionysus (Roman name Bacchus), Greek Olympian god of vine,
wine and mystic ecstasy. Orgies in favor of Bacchus are bacchanals. According
to classical mythology, the god’s favorite island was Andros, where rivers
ran with wine instead of water. The Greek city of Amphissa, or Salona,
was also a center for the cult of Dionysus.
See: Alma-Tadema The Woman
of Amphissa. Here a group of exhausted female bacchantes are
waking up after a night of bacchic revels, and being tended by local women.
Giovanni Bellini. The Infant
Bacchus.
François Boucher. Mercury
Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs.
Feodor Bruni Bacchante
Giving Wine to Cupid.
Caravaggio Self-Portrait
as Sick Bacchus, Bacchus.
Michelangelo Bacchus.
Nicolas Poussin. Andrians
or The Great Bacchanal with Woman Playing a Lute, Bacchanal.
Peter Paul Rubens Bacchanalia.
Henryk Siemiradzki. Bacchanalia.
Titian
Bacchanals of Andrians.
Bacchus
and Ariadne.
Diego Velázquez. Bachus.
Paolo Veronese. Bacchus
Giving Wine to Men.