Bacchus
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Casting Workshop of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (cast maker)No image available
- Artist
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Caprese, 1475 – Róma, 1564
Casting Workshop of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
(cast maker)
Berlin, 20. század első fele
- Dated
- 1496–1497 (original), 1906 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 210 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.235
- Department
- Sculpture
- Current Location of the Original Artwork
- Italy, Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Michelangelo carved between 1496 and 1497 the marble Bacchus statue, commissioned by the Roman Cardinal Raffaele Riario (1461–1521). The statue was initially designed to compliment Riario’s collection of antiquities. Finally the sculpture for unknown reasons entered the collection of Jacopo Galli in 1497 and was placed in his garden among a group of antique fragments. The Museum commissioned the plaster cast of the Bacchus in 1906 from Berlin, and the copy was exhibited in the Michelangelo Room in 1909. Probably lost during World War II, the current whereabouts of the artwork are unknown.