Bacchus - Versailles, France
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Yet another Bacchus sculpture at Versailles.
Waymark Code: WMD06B
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/01/2011
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This 1712 marble sculpture of Bacchus depicts the God naked but for a strategically placed robe and a laurel. He stands casually shifting his weight to his right leg while his left hand rests on a tree stump. His right hand is raised to his shoulder holding a bunch of grapes.
Bacchus is known as Dionysius by the Greeks..and Wikipedia's article about him is under that name: (
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"He is also the Liberator (Eleutherios), whose wine, music and ecstatic dance frees his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subverts the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake in his mysteries are possessed and empowered by the god himself.[9] His cult is also a "cult of the souls"; his maenads feed the dead through blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead."
The artist is Robert LeLorrain (1666-1743).