Vatican City, Italy (Enclave of Rome): Vatican Museums: Pio Clementino Museum: Bacchus Mosaic
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Sheppard, Beth M.
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20-May-17
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Italy , Vatican City , Rome , Vatican Museums , Musei Vaticani , Pio Clementino Museum , Museo Pio Clementino , Art Museums , Bacchus in Art , Mosaics , Renato Mattia
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Mosaic reproduction within the Pio Clementino Museum (Museo Pio Clementino) collection of the Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani). These are public museums that display about 20,000 of 70K works collected by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries. The museums were founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century. Only the Louvre in France receives more annual visitors than the Vatican Museums. The museums consist of 24 galleries, with the Sistine Chapel being the last room visited. The photo shows a mosaic reproduction of Bacchus pouring out wine. It was created by Renato Mattia in 1973 as a copy of the polychrome mosaic "Bacchus," originally Dionysus giving water to a panther. See this entry in the Vatican catalog: https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.45749.0.0.
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0