The Triumph of Bacchus is a 1629 painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. The painting shows Bacchus surrounded by drunks. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drunks.
Velázquez painted it after arriving Madrid from Seville, between 1626 and 1628, just before his travel to Italy. In Madrid, Velázquez could contemplate the king's collection of Italian paintings and was impressed by the nudity paintings as well b...
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The Triumph of Bacchus is a 1629 painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. The painting shows Bacchus surrounded by drunks. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drunks.
Velázquez painted it after arriving Madrid from Seville, between 1626 and 1628, just before his travel to Italy. In Madrid, Velázquez could contemplate the king's collection of Italian paintings and was impressed by the nudity paintings as well by the treatment of the mythological theme.
The work was painted to Philip IV.
The painting presents a sciene in which appears the god Bacchus crowning with a crown of vine leaves one of the seven drunk men around him. The crowned man can be a poet ispired by the wine. Another semi-mythological character observes the coronation. Some of the characters who are accompanying the coronation are looking at the spectator while smiling.
The work represents Bacchus as the god who reward or gift the men with the wine, which temporarily releases them...
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