Drunken Silenus
Jusepe de Ribera
Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera and Josep de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto by his contemporaries and early writers.
Max Resolution:2024×1606 PX
Title:Drunken Silenus
Artists:Jusepe de Ribera
Date:1626; Naples, Italy
Style:Tenebrism
Genre:mythological painting
Medium:oil,canvas
Location:National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
Dimensions:185×229 cm
Copyright:Public domain
Drunken Silenus is a painting by Jusepe de Ribera, produced in 1626 in Naples and now in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
The central figure is Silenus, lying on a cloth and offering a wine cup to the figure behind him. To the right is Pan, crowning Silenus with vines and surrounded by a shell (the symbol announcing his death) and a turtle (symbol of laziness). At the bottom right is a snake symbolising wisdom.
Its first recorded owner was the Flemish merchant Gaspar Roomer - he definitely did not commission the work, since he first acquired it several years after the artist's death. At the end of the 18th century it entered the collection of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies as part of their possessions in Naples, bringing it to the Capodimonte.
The central figure is Silenus, lying on a cloth and offering a wine cup to the figure behind him. To the right is Pan, crowning Silenus with vines and surrounded by a shell (the symbol announcing his death) and a turtle (symbol of laziness). At the bottom right is a snake symbolising wisdom.
Its first recorded owner was the Flemish merchant Gaspar Roomer - he definitely did not commission the work, since he first acquired it several years after the artist's death. At the end of the 18th century it entered the collection of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies as part of their possessions in Naples, bringing it to the Capodimonte.