A Bacchanal; Silenus supported by two bacchants in the center, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, with various other figures

A Bacchanal; Silenus supported by two bacchants in the center, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, with various other figures

Marcantonio Raimondi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

For discussion of this print, its dating and relationship to another version of the print by Marcantonio or an assistant, see James Grantham Turner, 'Marcantonio's Raimondi's Bacchanals: New Findings', Print Quarterly, 2017, vol. XXXIV, pp.259-69. This print is the first version. For the second version see 17.50.92.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Bacchanal; Silenus supported by two bacchants in the center, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, with various other figuresA Bacchanal; Silenus supported by two bacchants in the center, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, with various other figuresA Bacchanal; Silenus supported by two bacchants in the center, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, with various other figuresA Bacchanal; Silenus supported by two bacchants in the center, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, with various other figuresA Bacchanal; Silenus supported by two bacchants in the center, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, with various other figures

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