#Bacchus painting by Caravaggio

[rmelster]

Vendémiaire.

The first month of the French Republican calendar established by the National Constituent Assembly, vendémiaire came from the Occitan word vendemiaire, which means “grape harvester”. It began with the autumnal equinox and meant the season of vintage of the grape in France.

[a-studious-reej]

Some watercolor studies... It's been ages since I broke out the watercolor set, and it took me a FEW times to finally remember how to use them, but I'm pleased with how these turned out!

Of course they're lil studies from Apollo Belvedere and Caravaggio's Bacchus.

My butthole was CLENCHED doing these I was GRIPPING the side of my chair like... Don't fuck it up don't fuck it up don't fuck it up... BUT we persevered and honestly I had a lot of fun. I'll probably try to do more again.

Finally got some semi-edible grapes off our grapevine today too (they're still a little sour, but I wasn't expecting ANY so I'm pleased either way), so this was an excellent way to celebrate!

[ignivv]

Young Sick Murdoc

[tragediambulante]

Bacchus, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), 1598

[bittersuite9]

Bacchus by Caravaggio

[podartists]

Bacchus (circa 1598) | Caravaggio (1571-1610)

[biracy]

Young, Sick Serendipity

[gleichschenklig]

Bacchus, Caravaggio (Milano 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610).-

[nerd-artist]

Throwback to my Horizon Greek Gods series, and the classic paintings they’re based on.

(Still some characters I want to add)

Diana The Huntress by Guillaume Seignac

Bacchus by Caravaggio

Hermes by W.B. Richmond

Proserpine by Rossetti

Mars by Velazquez

An Allegory of Victory by Lefebvre

The Palm Leaf and The Pearl by Bouguereau

Priestess of Vesta by Frederick Leighton

[pmamtraveller]

CARAVAGGIO - YOUNG SICK BACCHUS, 1593

This subject, which is clearly classical, immediately strikes us as unusual. The young deity is casting a sidelong glance at us, wearing a peculiar expression on his face. His limited power is evident through a few natural gifts present: small grapes, one dark and one white, and two pale peaches. He appears sickly with a yellow complexion and livid lips.

It is likely that Young Sick Bacchus is a self-portrait of Caravaggio, as the figure appears to be ill during a period when the artist was known to be sick, and also because Caravaggio often painted himself into his works using a mirror. This was partially because he was poor, which prevented him from hiring a model to pose for him.

This represents the Christian concept of vanitas - the futility of worldly possessions, their temporary existence, and eventual deterioration. If we examine the shared similarities between Bacchus and Christ, the Bacchus we see must represent the suffering Christ. The Christ of the Passion, in other words, as grapes prefigure wine.

There was a strong need for cabinet pieces like this: paintings focused on a single subject with minimal spatial context, making them easy to incorporate into furniture arrangements. At the time, the expanding Roman aristocracy was in great need of decorations for its room.

[setevulpo]

obscura love interests as paintings!

hello, yes, this vn has consumed my days. have a healthy dose of artistic rambles relating to the love interests from someone who knows nothing about art, and enjoy!

the pictures are unfortunately only of details, because tumblr will crash and burn if i try putting all 15 full paintings in one post, but seriously. look up the paintings. they're so beautiful y'all.

divider by @/cafekitsune

keir

boy peeling fruit by michelangelo caravaggio! picked because it gave me chilling-after-work vibes and it's kinda domestic!

the shipwreck by claude-joseph vernet! it's the tragedy! the despair! the only thing you can do is help those who aren't dead yet!

the last day of pompeii by karl bryullov! yes. it's the same reason as above. add the impotence of being unable to stop what's causing it and muah! gold! also volcano.

cirrus

noli me tangere by titian vecellio! this painting is named after the biblical episode after jesus' resurrection, and it's symbolical of belief/love without a physical aspect to it.

death and life by gustav klimt! another one that is about a lack of physical union, but i also picked it because of the light and dark contrast between life and death.

the annunciation by henry ossawa tanner! it depicts the moment gabriel informed mary of her pregnancy, and it is very much about clarity and revelations, usually of the holy kind.

francesco

david with the head of goliath by michelangelo caravaggio! there are many theories about what this one is actually about, but one of them talks about caravaggio's youth ruining his chance at becoming old. do you see my vision.

by the sea by piet mondrian! this one is mostly about the vibes, it's very rich but also simplistic in a way?

roses, convolvulus, poppies, and other flowers in an urn on a stone ledge by rachel ruysch! a peony at the central point for love and wealth, foxglove that, despite symbolising deceit also leans into healing, the nasturium standing for victory despite struggles!

oleander

the aegean sea by frederic edwin church! a temple of bacchus and a double rainbow and the freedom of an open sea. there's something there i tell you.

cymon and iphigenia by frederic leighton! cymon gazes upon a sleeping iphigenia and is filled with inspiration of which he never knew before. it has a very warm feeling to it, and it is set at dusk in early autumn. also it's just pretty.

symphony in white, no.1 by james mcneill whistler! the original artist said that this painting had no deeper meaning, ominous much, but also it depicts a woman casually standing on a dead wolf, which is undeniably badass.

+ bonus! vesper

the first mourning by william-adolphe bouguereau! adam and eve mourning their son after he died! it looks beautiful and desperate and completely anguished.

descent into limbo by andrea mantegna! this one is all because of vesper going into the mountain not sorry at all. the man in the painting is begging for mercy or help or literally anything.

the death of adonis by peter paul rubens! someone died when they should have lived. someone died way before their time. vesper my beloved this will be you.

[eddy25960]

Born on September 29, 1571

🎨 The Master of Light

Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio

Italian painter (Milano 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610)

Caravaggio is one of the great masters in history. His unique methods started a new era for painting. To this day, his pieces are regarded as part of the greatest works of art of all time.

Caravaggio lived a troubled life and had a controversial career. He quickly showed incredible potential and gained popularity in various Italian cities for his style. Unfortunately, many of the subjects in his paintings and his behavior would cause controversy and he perished mysteriously. Caravaggio’s unique “Chiaroscuro” style consists of creating dramatic compositions where you push the intensity of both the dark tones and light tones to a maximum. The scenery and colors are then enhanced by the effects created and it generated incredibly compelling works of art.

Caravaggio approached his paintings with a very peculiar manner. He would not sketch but paint directly onto the canvas. Starting with the dark tones, he would then build up the light by directly painting with led white paint. Finally, he would add the colors on top of these layers to create the incredible depth.

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Bacchus, c. 1598

Oil on canvas, 95 x 85 cm

The Uffizi Museum, Florence, Italy

Copyright © The Uffizi

[starsnores]

Gotta say the Gamzee as Dionysus sketch is 😮‍💨👌

Im pretty sure theres an old painting that you did with gamzee as Dionysus thats also absolutely beautiful. Gotta say theres just something about Gamzee that makes him perfect as Dionysus. When I do Godstuck AUs I always tend to lean that way with him. It’s just so very *chefs kiss*

Id absolutely LOVE to hear your thoughts and ideas around this 👀

thank you! i think i reblogged that painting recently i think, the one that's just bacchus by caravaggio but i made it gamzee lmao. idk if i have anything to add really other then affirm that yeah dionysus is Very fitting for gamzee, especially the orphic dionysian stuff? a god ripped apart and reborn narrative. the intoxication and divine madness and blood worship, his festivals being a driving force behind the development of ancient greek theatre, that comedy and tragedy thing that's also apart of gamzee. And separate from that i think it's neat how a lot of his incidental symbolism is at least tangentially related to gamzee? bulls, the hide of a big cat, goats and snakes. Penis. i just feel like gamzee embodies a lot of the aspects of dionysus to an absurd degree.

[nearer-than-the-eye]

LITTLE SAINT

listen Ahi giustizia di Dio! tante chi stipa nove travaglie e pene quant’ io viddi? e perché nostra colpa sì ne scipa?

"Ah, Justice of God, who heaps up such strange punishment and pain as I saw there? and why do our sins so waste us?" For Santino D'Antonio: John Wick's bitter ex, my most beloved villain, and whose name means sacred or little saint.

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John Wick 2 may have come out nearly a decade ago, but being a Santino girl is a chronic condition. Cover and track list images are details from Caravaggio's Bacchus, and the epigraph is from Canto VIII of Inferno, translated by Robert and Jean Hollander.

Some extended thoughts about my process and choice of epigraph and cover under the read more!

This playlist mostly started because I was listening to "Young Caesar 2000," said to myself, wow, this would be a great Santino song, and put it alone on a new playlist. From there, for about a year, I'd throw on anything that particularly reminded me of Santino, songs that felt, not like they described him, but that they might narrate part of his inner monologue and feeling. Some John/Santino vibes starting slipping in there (almost inevitably), but I knew I wanted to keep things really closely tied to how Santino understands himself. I narrowed things down, did some ordering for the overall arc and (hopefully) smooth transitions, and here we are!

Essential to my understanding of Santino (and thus this playlist's formation) is NeverwinterThistle's Unholy Union and asuralucier's The Man You Want to Be, both of which you should absolutely run, not walk, to read.

I'll let the tracklist mostly speak for itself, but I hopefully captured Santino's arrogance and the fundamental emptiness and deep insecurity that arrogance covers. I really do think John is something real and true for Santino, in a world full of posturing, but he eventually cannot resist instrumentalizing John, just like everyone else. JW 2 is one of the JW movies most pessimistic about masculinity (if not THE most pessimistic), and the arc of this playlist would certainly be very different without Mitksi's "I'm Your Man." Which is Mitski's most pessimistic song about masculinity! So it all works out.

The title -- The fact that Santino's name means "little saint" has fascinated me since my first cursory google search that delivered this factoid, and I've always kept it in my back pocket when thinking about Santino as a character. He's always the little brother. His petulance and pettiness is so essential to his character, and it's, of course, what makes him such a great foil to John (who imagines himself as a rational actor, but has his matching streak of the petulance). Santino inherits all this splendor, and all he can do is try and claw out more and more. A petty saint, and certainly never a god.

Why Bacchus? -- Well, I was trying to get a good film still for the cover and eventually gave up, so then I went to go find something appropriately aesthetic for a playlist cover. I was going to do a Dutch Golden Age still life bc that's what I'm writing about rn and lushness (and rot) is so essential to Santino, but then I was like. this guy is Italian. SUPER Italian. Who's an Italian with dramatic shadows and lush still lifes? And thus Caravaggio. Bacchus because revelry, excess, beauty, ect....also the invitation of the painting--he's holding out the goblet to you, asking you to join him. But mostly because it's beautiful.

Why Dante? -- I KNEW this bitch had to have an epigraph from Inferno once I realized this was going to be a real playlist. I mean, speaking of pessimism! The Divine Comedy feels so crazy to read as a modern reader bc it's like. yeah all this suffering is God's perfect justice. That guy eating his own shit is part of the divine plan. Which, to me, lines up really well with my read on masculinity in the JW movies--perfect, unchangeable, and committing you to endless suffering.

Alright, let's really get into it. This tercet ("Ah, Justice of God, who heaps up / such strange punishment and pain as I saw there? / and why do our sins so waste us?") come early in Canto 7, as Virgil and Dante (our POV character and protagonist) leave the third circle of Hell, Gluttony, and enter the fourth circle, Avarice and Prodigality ("Why do you squander...Why do you hoard" is probably the most famous quote from this circle). If Santino was to end up anywhere, it would be in one of those two circles, so I enjoy that this is the point in the text Dante asks these two questions!

Speaking of: despite God's perfection, Dante sure loves to question what he sees in hell and then...not resolve those questions in any way. It's interesting to see that "who heaps up / such strange punishment and pain as I saw there?" is a question addressed to the "Justice of God" when. well. the Justice of God is the thing heaping up these strange punishments and pain!

Dante seems unaware of the paradox, here, which has a real resonance for me in the way Santino is just like, well, I HAVE to blow up your house, John! I HAVE to put out a hit on you after you fulfill the marker, John! But to point to the times he acted out of compassion (not calling in John's marker during his retirement) would completely undermine that logic. It says "there are some things more important than power," but if Santino acknowledged that, then he wouldn't be able kill his sister.

Dante can't walk through hell and say with his whole chest, "I don't think it should be like this, actually" and still trust and love God, so he doesn't. Santino can't believe "more power will make me more happy, our culture says so," and also consciously acknowledge that it's the culture under the Table (and his father!!! his god!!!) that has pitted him against his sister his whole life, that has instilled in him values that ultimately leave him empty. So he doesn't! And he dies trapped in that paradox.

And then that second question. "And why do our sins so waste us?" UGH. ugh. Dante. You fucking hit me hard with this one. This is the line that made me choose this tercet. There's so much to Santino, so much beauty, so much divinity--but our sins waste us. All that power is used only in pursuit of more power, and, in the end, he's destroyed by that pursuit. The first two lines of the tercet key into culture and the way we contort our selves to fit into culture, but this last line is just an exclamation of the tragedy. Why? we ask, and nobody answers.

[100-art]

16 Most Famous Caravaggio Paintings. Masterpieces of Light and Shadow

A collection of classic scenes showcases dramatic lighting and expressive characters, highlighting intense emotions and vivid storytelling. Each of Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio piece reveals intricate details and historical themes from various narratives.

Christ Crowned with Thorns David and Goliath Self-Portrait as Bacchus Bacchus Crucifixion of Saint Peter The Unbelief Of St. Thomas Judith Beheading Holofernes David with Head of Goliath Rest on the Flight into Egypt Salome Calling of Saint Matthew The Conversion on the Way to Damascus Medusa Crucifixion of Saint Peter The decapitation of St John the baptist

[theblacksheepcz]

Drawing Mozelle over historical paintings day 4

[Bacchus, 1596, Caravaggio]

this is lazy because I’m tired today so