Head of Bacchus, called Dionysus by the Greeks. Roman god of wine and grapes, depicted as a youth with crown of vine leaves and grapes. Bacco detto da Greci Dionisio. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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