Head of Bacchus, Roman god of wine and grapes

Head of Bacchus, called Dionysus by the Greeks. Roman god of wine and grapes, depicted as a youth with crown of ivy leaves and berries. From a bronze medal. Bacco detto da Greci Dionisio. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de'Lazari, Rome, 1699

1699 17th Century Bacchus Berries Bronze Medal Classical Mythology Debauchery Dionysus Drunkenness Filososi Giovanni Angelo Canini Grapes Greek God Greek Myth Greeks Guillaume Vallet Iconografia Ignatio Delazari Orator Poeti Ed Oratori Dell Antichita Regi Roman God Roman Myth

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