In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens made several images of Bacchus and his teacher, Silenus. Silenus’s incessant overindulgence in wine presented comic possibilities, as seen here, where he walks naked in a stupor with the support of two others. Some artists, including Rubens, were attracted to Silenus for his embodiment of the intuitive and sensual parts of human nature, qualities essential to creativity. Art historians have argued that Rubens’s images of Silenus are indirect self-portraits expressing the artist’s search for creative inspiration and spiritual insight while inhabiting a highly corruptible human body.
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Christoffel Jegher|Peter Paul Rubens — The March of Silenus
Peter Paul Rubens|Schelte Adams à Bolswert — The drunken Sil
Philippe Thomassin|Master of the Die|Raphael (Raffaello Sanz
Eugène Delacroix — Hercules and Antaeus
Maarten van Heemskerck|Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert — Two Wres
Louis Desplaces (French, 1682–1739) — Rape of the Sabines
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617) — The Great Hercules or
Maarten van Heemskerck|Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert — Wrestler
Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)|Raphael (Raffaello Sa
Master of the Die|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Philip
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori|Giulio Romano — Hercules and the Neme
Hendrick Goltzius — The Great Hercules
