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GRL8683544
Image title
The bacchantes kill Orpheus with stones and sticks for refusing to sing the praises of Bacchus, 1650-52 (wall tempera painting)
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Artist
Boulanger, Jean (1606-c.1680) / French
Photographer
Ghigo Roli
Location
Palazzo Ducale, Gallerie Estensi, Sassuolo, Emilia Romagna, Italy
Medium
wall tempera painting
Image description

Sassuolo, Este Ducal Palace, Gallery of Bacchus: "The bacchantes kill Orpheus with stones and sticks for refusing to sing the praises of Bacchus". The painting depicts a marina dominated by a stack while in the foreground there is an allegorical figure of an old man (it depicts the Ebro, the river into which Orpheus' head will be thrown). It is one of the forty-one panels with scenes painted by Jean Boulanger which narrate the events of Bacchus. Wall tempera painting, 1650 - 52.

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Ghigo Roli / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
17th century / art / murder / crime / Bacchus / god / mythological figure / mythology / river / fresco / painting / man / Italy / Europe / sea / palace / violence / Orpheus / corpse
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Largest available format 6078 × 4160 px 12 MB
Dimension [pixels] Dimension in 300dpi [mm] File size [MB]
Large 6078 × 4160 px 515 × 352 mm 11.7 MB
Medium 1024 × 701 px 87 × 59 mm 1.1 MB

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