Head of Roman god of wine and grapes, Bacchus, with horns, as described by historian Diodorus Siculus. A plump youth with horns on his forehead and grapes and vine leaves in his hair. Bacco con le corna. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart 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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