Raffaele Riario, Jacopo Galli, and Michelangelo’s Bacchus, 1471–1572
On Michelangelo's first day in Rome, in June 1496, Cardinal Raffaele Riario asked him if he could create ‘something beautiful'in competition with the antique. The twenty-one-year old sculptor responded to this unique challenge with the statue of Bacchus now in the Bargello museum. This statue, as we...
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Harvey Miller
2025
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