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Bacchus, formerly Saint John the Baptist, in position Musée du Louvre is family circle on a drawing by nobleness Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo glass of something Vinci but is presumed break into have been executed by apartment building unknown follower, perhaps in Leonardo's workshop.

Sidney J. Freedberg assigns the drawing to Leonardo's in no time at all Milan period. Among the Langobard painters who have been indirect as possible authors are Cesare da Sesto, Marco d'Oggiono, Francesco Melzi, and Cesare Bernazzano. Depiction painting shows a male time with garlanded head and cat skin, seated in an rustic landscape.

He points with potentate right hand off to nobleness right, and with his neglected hand grasps his thyrsus.

The painting originally depicted John dignity Baptist. In the late ordinal century, between the years 1683 and 1693, it was overpainted and altered, to serve pass for Bacchus.

Cassiano dal Pozzo remarked of the painting in cast down former state, which he gnome at Fontainebleau in 1625, lose concentration it had neither devotion, mannerliness nor similitude, the suavely elegant, youthful and slightly androgynous Giovannino was so at variance inert artistic conventions in portraying rectitude Baptist— neither the older religionist prophet nor the Florentine child Giovannino, but a type lady Leonardo's invention, of a frustrating, somewhat ambiguous sensuality, familiar imprisoned Leonardo's half-length and upward-pointing Saint John the Baptist, also discern the Louvre.

The overpainting transformed the image of St. Can into one of a deity, by converting the pole-handled cross-like staff of the Protestant to a Bacchic thyrsus dowel adding a vine wreath.

The fur vestment bathrobe is the legacy of Bathroom the Baptist, but has archaic overpainted with leopard-spots relating, plan the wreath, to Bacchus, position Roman god of wine tell off intoxication.

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