| The Bacchanalia and the Liberalia were related religious festivals in ancient Rome, in honor of Bacchus. |
| But I tell you this, when she recovers her senses, all Bacchus will give her is bitter tears for her reward. |
| The musculature and tonality of the men in the lower right-hand corner are reminiscent of the bearded figure in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne. |
| Bacchus in early likenesses was a bearded man, but later he was pictured as a youth. |
| Many of his works feature astonishingly mimetic renditions of fruits, flora, and vessels, as in the Bacchus. |
| The most ordinary, perhaps, is the cantharus, or two-handled cup, which was particularly sacred to Bacchus. |
