DORIGNY, Louis
(b. 1654, Paris, d. 1742, Verona)

Bacchanal (detail)

c. 1710
Fresco
Palazzo Orsetti Dolfin Giacomelli, Treviso

The three figures in the centre of the Bacchanal are engaged in a dance. They dance to a melody provided by a pair of extemporaneous musicians: a timid adolescent playing a flute, looking sideways at his companion, who shakes and strikes a drum - actually a modern tambourine - her mouth slightly open in song.




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