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The Feast of Bacchus. 1832 - 1836. Lithographic aquatint, Crayon lithography, Scraper on wove paper. The Company for the engraving of the paintings from the Royal Palaces was one of the Spanish Enlightenment’s major undertakings during the second half of the 18th century.
Emperor Nero accused his teacher, Seneca, of treason and ordered his execution. Scorning imperial power, the philosopher decided to take his own life. First he cut his veins and then he took poison. In the end, though, it was the vapors from a brazier that put an end to his suffering.
The painting appears to be a monumental refutation of Vasari´s description of Jacopo in the second edition of his Lives ( Florence, 1568), as a painter of animals and small figures.
The work is based on a portrait of Goya as an old man (P864) painted by Vicente López in 1826. The resultant work has clear links to the statue of Goya that stands in front of the Prado Museum building´s north façade (the “Puerta de Goya” or “Goya Entrance”).
Bacchanal. 1625 - 1626. Oil on canvas. Room 003. This is a traditional scene from the iconography of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. It depicts his meeting with Ariadne on the island of Naxos. The god rides a chariot pulled by lions, and helps his future wife, who was abandoned by Theseus, to climb aboard ( Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII).
Bosch, Hieronymus. S'Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), ca. 1450 - S'Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), 1516. Jheronimus van Aken, better known as Jheronimus Bosch, belonged to a family of painters spanning six generations; his earliest artistic forebears came to Nijmegen (Duchy of Guelders) from Aachen -if, as is presumed, “Aken” was their original ...
Cambiaso, Luca. Moneglia, Liguria, 1527 - El Escorial, Madrid, 1585. Luca Cambiaso was the most celebrated Mannerist painter of the Genoese school, and the inventor of many large-scale fresco decorations in both palaces and churches in the city.
