Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

baroque

Caravaggio Paintings 1571 - 1610 Italy, Baroque Painter

Sick Bacchus, c.1593

Oil on canvas, 26 3/8 x 20 3/4 inches (67 x 53 cm)

Galleria Borghese, Rome

Mythological Art

3 from 36

Browse Artists Alphabetically by Name

Choose from these available sizes

painting: CAM004 size: 26x20 inches price: $850 add to cart

painting:CAM004B size II: 27.8x22 inches price: $940 add to cart

Time needed to complete and deliver your order depends on the volume and complexity of the paintings and we keep you informed about the stage of completion throughout the process.

The painter usually needs 3-4 weeks to achieve the highest quality of the reproduction and get it dry for shipping.

Sick Bacchus, c.1593 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is entirely handmade without use of artificial methods. It is painted on linen canvas with oil paints of the highest French quality.

We are professional graduates of art schools, which gives us the opportunity to reproduce to the highest point of perfection the style and technique of the original old master. With more than 20 years of experience and thousands of satisfied customers our oil reproductions are the best, always bearing the full spirit of the original.

Free Worldwide shipping by DHL which can be tracked online. The canvas is delivered unframed, rolled in a postal tube.

Please note that depending on the importing country's regulations additional duty tax might be applied. It is automatically calculated once the product is added to the shopping cart.

Delivery by DHL is fast - up to 3 business days.

ask for another size

✔ Hand painted oil on canvas

✔ Delivered within 3 weeks

✔ Free shipping

✔ Lifetime warranty

shipping information

OIL PAINTING: Sick Bacchus, c.1593
Among Caravaggio's early paintings, this painting - Sick Bacchus , in which the pose of the arm may recall his debt to the kneeling shepherd in a fresco by Peterzano, belongs to the small group which has always been seen as self-portraits. The livid colours of Sick Bacchus face, his teasing smile and the mock seriousness of his mythological dignity all reinforce the attempt to undermine the lofty pretensions of Renaissance artistic traditions. Here is no god, just a sickly young man who may be suffering from the after-effects of a hangover. There is no mistaking the Caravaggio's delight in the depiction of the fine peaches and black grapes on the slab, the white grapes in his hand and the vine leaves that crown his hair, but the artist is not content merely to demonstrate his superb technique: he wishes to play an intimate role and only the slab separates him from the viewer. His appearance is striking rather than handsome: he shows both that his face is unhealthy and that his right shoulder is not that of a bronzed Adonis, as convention required, but pale as in the case of any man who normally wears clothes.