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Galleria Borghese, Rome. The Young Sick Bacchus (Italian: Bacchino Malato), also known as the Sick Bacchus or the Self-Portrait as Bacchus, is an early self-portrait by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dated between 1593 and 1594. It now hangs in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. According to Caravaggio's first biographer ...
Young Sick Bacchus, 1953 by Caravaggio. Young Sick Bacchus is also referred as a 'small picture of a youth with a garland of ivy, and a bunch of grapes in his hand'. It was then given by Pope Paul V to his nephew, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, and has remained in the Borghese collection ever since. First referred to as a Bacchus by Caravaggio in ...
The Young Sick Bacchus (Bacchino Malato), also known as the Sick Bacchus or the Self-Portrait as Bacchus, is an early self-portrait by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dated between 1593 and 1594. History. The artwork dates from Caravaggio’s first years in Rome when he moved to the Eternal City from his native Milan in the mid-1592.
Dec 12, 2023 · The Young Sick Bacchus (Italian: Bacchino Malato), also known as the Sick Bacchus or the Self-Portrait as Bacchus, is an early self-portrait by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dated between 1593 and 1594. It now hangs in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
Young Sick Bacchus (Bacchino Malato) is a 1593 painting by prominent Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio depicting exactly as its title describes. Titled Young Sick Bacchus because of the jaundiced appearance of the mythical subject, likely modeled upon the Caravaggio’s own reflection at a time of illness displays the young artist’s earliest ...
Oct 14, 2023 · Young Sick Bacchus, created between 1593 and 1594, is an oil-on-canvas painting that was produced by Michelangelo Mersisi da Caravaggio during the early part of his career. Caravaggio, born in Milan and a student of Simone Peterzano, had moved to Rome in the hope of establishing a reputation for himself as an artist and had found employment as a painter in Giuseppe Cesari's workshop.
Feb 10, 2020 · Backstory: This painting is also known as ‘Sick Bacchus’ or ‘Self-Portrait as Bacchus.’. Caravaggio used a mirror to paint this work as he did more often later in his career. He probably painted it between 1593 and 1594. In 1607, the painting was confiscated by the Pope because of tax evasion by its owner, Giuseppe Cesari.
