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Bacchus with a drinking bowl
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Cartouches with auricular motifs were used quite often in engravings, but here Bacchus holds a drinking bowl, a three-dimensional object entirely made up of kwab forms. That was original and daring: in reality such objects were almost certainly not yet made by 1596.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBacchus met een drinkschaal. 1593 - 1597. Hendrick Goltzius. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
