Drunken Silenus

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Number:086355

Title:Drunken Silenus

Artist: Ribera, José (Jusepe), de (1591-1652)

Museum: Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Method: Oil on canvas

Created: 1626

School: Spain

Category: Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Trend in art: Baroque

Keywords: Wine, Roman mythology, Peasants, Ovid, Greek Mythology, Bacchus, Silenus, Dionysus, God of wine, God of fertility, Orgies, Satyr, Satyrs, Maenads, Bacchantes, Bacchanalia, Drunkenness, Bacchante, Orgy, Bacchanal, Dionysian Mysteries