Giulio Romano, 1539 - The Birth of Bacchus - fine art print

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Giulio Romano and workshop

In a canvas filled with half-naked, twisting bodies, the story of Bacchus's birth unfolds in a typically wry Mannerist commentary on the perils of passion. On discovering that the chief god Jupiter had impregnated the young mortal Semele, his wife, Juno, hatched a plan to end the love affair. Disguised as Semele's nurse, and knowing that Jupiter's lightning and thunder were lethal, she persuaded Semele to ask Jupiter to visit "in all his glory." Here, as Semele gives birth to Bacchus, who is caught by nymphs, she herself is consumed by flames. From the top of the clouds, Juno looks apprehensively at her thunderbolt-carrying husband.

Giulio Romano and his workshop originally painted this scene as part of an erotic series of mythological love stories for Federico Gonzaga, duke of Mantua. Giulio probably did not execute the series by himself, though he likely designed them and painted selected parts.

This artwork was created by Giulio Romano. The more than 480 year old original creation was painted with the absolute dimensions: 126,4 × 79,4 cm (49 3/4 × 31 1/4 in) and was made with the technique of oil on panel. Today, this artpiece belongs to the digital art collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. With courtesy of - The J. Paul Getty Museum (licensed: public domain).Moreover, the work of art has the following creditline: . The alignment is in portrait format with an image ratio of 2 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Giulio Romano was a painter, architect, whose artistic style can be classified as Mannerism. The artist was born in 1499 in Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy and deceased at the age of 47 in the year 1546.

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