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Night clock
Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Crucified Christ
Charity of St. Lawrence
Sibyl Samia
application
Rape of Proserpina
Bacchus
Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Rape of Proserpina
Adonis
Christ at the column
Dionysus
Bust of Flora
Jupiter and Astrea
The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
Putties
Putties
Become a danzanti
Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
Consol
Night clock

The Triumph of Bacchus

Domenico Parodi

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Royal Palace Museum

Royal Palace Museum

Via Balbi, 10, Genoa

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Bacchus and the other deities frescoed in the Gallery of Mirrors symbolize the cause of the ruin of the great empires of the past: they are the representatives of the religion of the ancients who never knew the Christian faith. Unlike the Durazzo family, patrons of this cycle of frescoes, they identify themselves as defenders of Christian virtues. The fresco The Triumph of Bacchus occupies the eastern dome above the entrance. The scene is conceived in an imaginary space above the clouds, in a semicircular terrace. In the center is Bacchus on a golden chariot pulled by two leopards, he is crowned by a branch of ivy and has the classical composure of an ancient statue, naked and only partially covered by a leopard skin. Grab a rod with ivy twisted around it, a symbol of fertility. A maenad dances in front of him, shaking his eardrum; in the foreground a young man and a satiress sleep drunk on the clouds and Arianna is naked and at the center of the scene. The episode depicted seems similar to that of the meeting between Bacchus and Ariadne, just before the triumph.
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Title: The Triumph of Bacchus

Author: Domenico Parodi

Date: 1725

Technique: Fresco

Displayed in: Royal Palace Museum

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