Bacchante, a priestess of the Roman god of wine, Bacchus. Wearing a crown of fig leaves, holding a bunch of grapes, leaning on a grape vine. From a sculpture in the Galleria Giustiniana, now in the Museo Torlonia, Rome. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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