Education of the Infant Bacchus
Niccolò Amastini
first half 19th century · Onyx, gold frame · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Freely adapting antique compositions, Niccolò Amastini described with elegant linearity the contours of the baby god and his wild attendants under a vine-wrapped tree.
- Artist
- Niccolò Amastini
- Date
- first half 19th century
- Medium
- Onyx, gold frame
- Culture
- Italian, Rome
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Milton Weil Collection, 1940
