Parution : Cyril Gerbron, « A Playful Invention : Agostino Carracci’s Bacchus with Goat in the Louvre », I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 2020
AN INTRIGUING DRAWING PRESERVED in the Cabinet des arts graphiques of the Louvre Museum, executed in pen and ink, represents Bacchus holding a wine cup and accompanied by a goat. The drawing presents two lacunae, which appear to be the result of ink corrosion: one at the level of the god’s genitalia, and a less important one in the goat’s left leg. Continuer la lecture Référence : « A Playful Invention : Agostino Carracci’s Bacchus with Goat in the...