Midas and Bacchus

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Poussin Nicolas - Midas and Bacchus
Number:049999
Title:Midas and Bacchus
Artist: Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665)
Museum: Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Method: Oil on canvas
Created: ca 1624
School: France
Category: Mythology, Allegory and Literature
Trend in art: Baroque
Keywords: Drinking, Wine, Flute, Fantasy, Fantasy world, Barock, Roman mythology, Greek Mythology, Bacchus, King of Phrygia, 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, Roman Gods, Place-spirits, God of free Nature, Patron of peasants and sheperds, Pan, Fertility, Wood spirit, Bacchante, Faun, Orgy, Midas, King Midas, Phrygia, Bacchanal, Dionysian Mysteries, Faunus