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Young Sick Bacchus
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, Giovanni Baglione, it was a cabinet piece painted by the artist using a mirror.
History.
The painting dates from Caravaggio's first years in Rome following
- Aslan: the son of the Emperor, and the creator of Narnia, who was executed by Jadis.
- Tash: a demon god of Calormen.
- Azaroth: deity (presumably female) of night and unmarried maidens.
- Zardeenah: another goddess of night and virgins.
- Bacchus: god of wine and ecstasy, a friend of Silenus and the maenads.
- Silenus: fat god riding on a donkey, tutor of Bacchus.
- Maenads: nymph goddesses that follow Bacchus