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      AFTER A WORK COPYING PERINO DEL VAGA (FLORENCE 1501-ROME 1547)

      The Triumph of Bacchus

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | 20.6 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851812

      A photograph of a drawing now in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford (inv. no.0161). The drawing is a copy after a drawing by Perino del Vaga currently in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.593). The latter is a study for one of the six intaglios engraved in rock crystal by Giovanni Bernardi for the 'Cassetta Farnese', an embossed silver-gilt setting made by Manno Sbarri in c.1548-61 and now housed in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples. The composition was also engraved by Giorgio Ghisi (Bartsch XV, p.403, no.46). A photograph of the original drawing by Perino dal Vaga now in the Louvre at RCIN 851811.

      • Creator(s)

        After a work copying Perino del Vaga (Florence 1501-Rome 1547) (artist)

      • 20.6 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • Language, Linguistics and Literature
          • Literature
            • Fiction
              • Tales & legends
                • Myths
        • Religion & Theology
          • Religions and faiths
            • Religions of antiquity
              • Classical mythology
                • Dionysus
        • Science, Medicine and Technology
          • Agriculture and related techniques
            • Horticulture
              • Grapes
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