HEROIC HOMECOMING
Dionysus returns to Greece from India. He is
represented here as a child holding bunches
of grapes. Around him, maenads, satyrs, and
the drunk Silenus venerate this god who has
given humanity the precious gift of wine.
Oil painting by Pietro da Cortona, ca 1625.
Capitoline Museums, Rome
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