Midas' Feast in Honour of Bacchus and Silenus

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Number:000268

Title:Midas' Feast in Honour of Bacchus and Silenus

Artist: Valckenborch, Gillis, van (1570-1622)

Museum: State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Method: Oil on wood

Created:

School: The Netherlands

Category: Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Trend in art: Early Netherlandish Art

Keywords: Wine, Barock, Peasants, Ovid, Greek Mythology, Midas' Feast, Honour, Bacchus, Silenus, King of Phrygia, Dionysus, God of wine, God of fertility, Orgies, Satyr, Satyrs, Maenads, Bacchantes, Bacchanalia, Drunkenness, Bacchante, Orgy, Bacchanal, Dionysian Mysteries