Bacchanal with Silenus; a frieze composition with ten figures around Silenus who is carried by two satyrs, Andrea Mantegna

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Bacchanal with Silenus; a frieze composition with ten figures around Silenus who is carried by two satyrs, early 1470s, Engraving with drypoint, Sheet: 12 in. × 17 1/4 in. ( × cm), Prints, Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua), While the precise meaning of Mantegna's Bacchanals has eluded scholars, the most decisive event occurring in each is a coronation—an act that, by Mantegna's time, was often linked with the recognition of poetic gifts

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