• The Triumph of Bacchus (Greek: Ο Θρίαμβος του Βάκχου) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid.
  • A Frenchman wrote only a few years ago: "With his brush he sweeps the gods away, and it is no longer Bacchus, but an imp acting the part of Bacchus."
  • Today, you can find The Triumph of Bacchus by Diego Velázquez at the most famous museum in Spain, the Prado Museum in Madrid.
  • In The Triumph of Bacchus, Velazquez shows Bacchus surrounded by drunken men in good humour and indeed, the painting is commonly known as Los...
  • The ancient Romans called him Bacchus; Velázquez has depicted him here at center crowning a well-dressed Spaniard with an ivy wreath.
  • The Triumph of Bacchus is a Baroque Oil on Canvas Painting created by Diego Velázquez from 1628 to 1629.
  • There is certainly a remarkable comparison between the works of Velazquez and Caravaggio and particularly in their images of Bacchus.
  • The Triumph of Bacchus (1629) - Diego Velazquez. The Triumph of Bacchus (1629) – Diego Velazquez.
  • Velázquez lends immediacy and gritty realism to a mythological subject.
  • By royal warrant in 1629, Velázquez was paid 100 ducats for this, his first mythological painting, which is approximately the equivalent of today´s $2,400USD.