Bacchus being bathed by nymphs after being born from Jupiter's knee, his mother Semele is consumed by flames. Engraving by C. Patas after A. Borel after Rinaldo Mantovano.

  • Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546.
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Bacchus being bathed by nymphs after being born from Jupiter's knee, his mother Semele is consumed by flames. Engraving by C. Patas after A. Borel after Rinaldo Mantovano. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 20.1 x 16.1 cm

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Naissance de Bacchus. Peint par Jules Romain. Dessiné par Borel. Gravé par Patas.

References note

Stefania Massari, Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit, Roma: Palombi, 1993, no. 320, p. 324

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Wellcome Collection 17251i

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After a painting which was successively in the Orleans and Bridgewater collections and then passed to the J.P. Getty Museum in California, where it was reattributed to Rinaldo Mantovano (Massari, loc. cit.)

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