Bacchanal, Giulio Carpioni (Venice, 1613 – Vicenza, 1678)

Giulio Carpioni (Venice, 1613 – Vicenza, 1678) attributable

Bacchanal

Oil on canvas (98 x 132 cm. – In frame 120 x 154 cm.)

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The painting, of high quality and well preserved, is a refined pictorial test by Giulio Carpioni (Venice, 1613 – Vicenza, 1678), one of the most talented Venetian painters of the XNUMXth century, and depicts a typical “Bacchanal”, a favourite subject which he repeated several times.

In particular, it is a celebration in honor of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine (or Dionysus in Greek mythology), characterized by naked or semi-naked mythological figures, such as satyrs, nymphs, maenads and cherubs, who dedicate themselves to idleness and the consumption of wine in a natural environment, abandoning themselves to unbridled pleasures, libations, dance, music and eroticism.

Trained with Padovanino and in the classicism of the Venetian tradition of the sixteenth century, Carpioni drew great inspiration from the youthful works of Titian, especially the mythological compositions and in particular his famous Bacchanals; it was in particular during his trip to Rome that he had the opportunity to see and study the “Baccanale degli Andrii”, today in the Prado Museum in Madrid, datable between 1523 and 1526.

He was fascinated by the dynamic movement, the sensuality of the bodies and the interaction of light and shadow of these works. He therefore took up and reworked many characters from Titian's paintings, such as the sensual nude of the nymph lying at the bottom left.

Then, moving to the right, there is the nice ''puer mingens'' (a figure in a work of art depicted as a pre-pubescent boy in the act of urinating) who spurts urine at a nymph who turns away annoyed by this mischievous gesture.

In Rome, the artist was also influenced by the realism of the Bamboccianti, as well as the classicist influences of Poussin, who devoted himself with great success to the same theme of the Bacchanalia.

The painting presented here can be compared in particular with the Bacchanal of the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo (https://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/scheda/fotografia/108771/), similar in size, in which the figure of the fat drunken Silenus supported by young helpers is reproduced almost identically in the counterpart (https://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/C0050-00068/), and again with the Bacchanal of the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco (https://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/B0020-00078/), as well as the painting of the Civic Museums of Vicenza through the legacy of Carlo Vicentini Dal Giglio in 1834.

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