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Bacchic scene

The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy.

They were based on the Greek Dionysia and the Dionysian Mysteries, and probably arrived in Rome 200 B.C. via the Greek colonies in southern Italy, and from Etruria, Rome's northern neighbour.

Livy claims the earliest version of the Bacchanalia was open to women only, and held on three days of the year, in daylight.

The night Bacchanalia involved wine-drinking to excess, drunkenness and the free mingling of the sexes and classes; the rites also involved loud music.

1653

by Jacob van Loo
1614 – 1670

He was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, chiefly active in Amsterdam and, after 1660, in Paris.

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