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Michelangelo’s Statue of a Drunk
Bacchus is Michelangelo´s first important statue and one of the few he ever finished; and many of the people who love his work are sorry he did it. Bacchus (1497) by Michelangelo (203 cm), in the Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy; … Continue reading
Posted in aesthetics, art, art history, Beauty, great artists, Michelangelo, Renaissance, stone carving
Tagged Bacchus, drunk, God of wine, Roman mythology, Ruskin, Shelley, Stendhal, tipsy
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