Young Sick Bacchus
Caravaggio · 1595
The story
The Young Sick Bacchus, also known as the Sick Bacchus or the Self-Portrait as Bacchus, is an early self-portrait by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dated between 1593 and 1594. It now hangs in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. According to Caravaggio's first biographer, Giovanni Baglione, it was a cabinet piece painted by the artist using a mirror.
- Artist
- Caravaggio
- Date
- 1595
- Collection
- Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
- Movement
- Italian Baroque painting
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 67 × 53 cm
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