(`. Bacchante .`)
Oil (Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd) on canvas board, 18"x24"
(c) G.T. All rights reserved, etc. etc.
The Bacchante--the priestesses and votaries of the Greco-Roman deity of wine and insanity, Bacchus--has been iconic in art ever since the Ancient Greek culture begot her in myth. In the original myths, these wild, lascivious women, tore animals limb-from-limb and committed human sacrifice during their frenzied wine and drug-induced orgies in praise of Bacchus (Dionysus in the original Greek myths), and, perhaps most famously, ripped-asunder the heroic musician Orpheus when he spurned their attentions while in morning for beloved Eurydice. In art, the Renaissance and Romantic periods played-down their more savage aspects, making them (almost) respectable by portraying them as the passions incarnate, and they are easily identified as the prototype vamp of the Modern era.
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Oil (Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd) on canvas board, 18"x24"
(c) G.T. All rights reserved, etc. etc.
The Bacchante--the priestesses and votaries of the Greco-Roman deity of wine and insanity, Bacchus--has been iconic in art ever since the Ancient Greek culture begot her in myth. In the original myths, these wild, lascivious women, tore animals limb-from-limb and committed human sacrifice during their frenzied wine and drug-induced orgies in praise of Bacchus (Dionysus in the original Greek myths), and, perhaps most famously, ripped-asunder the heroic musician Orpheus when he spurned their attentions while in morning for beloved Eurydice. In art, the Renaissance and Romantic periods played-down their more savage aspects, making them (almost) respectable by portraying them as the passions incarnate, and they are easily identified as the prototype vamp of the Modern era.
Detail.
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