La Danse des bacchantes (The Dance of Bacchantes)

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Number:057735

Title:La Danse des bacchantes (The Dance of Bacchantes)

Artist: Gleyre, Charles (1808-1874)

Museum: Palais de Rumine, Lausanne

Method: Oil on canvas

Created: 1849

School: Schwitzerland

Category: Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Trend in art: Romanticism

Keywords: Wine, 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