Bacchanalia1.0345_LovisCorinth

Bacchanalia1.0345_LovisCorinth

Gelsenkirchen Städtl. Museum
OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus, Death of"

Lovis Corinth, 1858-1925, "Bacchanal," 1896, oil on canvas, Städliches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Reid lists numerous Corinth paintings, lithographs, and etchings s.v. "Bacchanalia". This one = Berend-Corinth no. 131 and is treated briefly by Horst Uhr, Lovis Corinth, California Studies in the History of Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 95-96, who identifies Bouguereau's Education of Bacchus (1884) as an influence upon Corinth's picture. I would assert the predominance of Emile Lévy's "Death of Orpheus" (1866), which leads me to identify the male figure in the foreground as a deceased Orpheus.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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