Homecoming Bacchantes

« back add to lighbox

Number:032242

Title:Homecoming Bacchantes

Artist: Corinth, Lovis (1858-1925)

Museum: Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Method: Oil on canvas

Created: 1898

School: Germany

Category: Genre
Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Trend in art: Impressionism

Keywords: Drinking, Wine, Roman mythology, Bacchus, Dionysus, God of wine, God of fertility, Orgies, Satyr, Satyrs, Maenads, Bacchantes, Bacchanalia, Drunkenness, Festivity, Drunk, Bacchus feast, Mystic celebration, Ancient Roman festivals, Bacchae, Drinking bout, Bacchante, Orgy, Bacchanal, Dionysian Mysteries