Midlife Bacchus

Chris Longridge

Midlife Bacchus

Acrylic
Canvas
76 x 60 cm

£1,000

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Caravaggio painted his ‘Young Sick Bacchus’ (a self-portrait holding grapes) after a bout of malaria. Grapes are historically viewed as a symbol of natural vitality and hedonism. This self-portrait finds the artist in middle age, wondering what his relationship is now to those symbolic themes.