Cleveland Museum of Art
Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
Andrea Mantegna (Italian, about 1431–1506) · 1470–80
Philosophers and moralists cautioned against drinking straight from the vat, because, as Bacchus's exalted pose suggests, only a god could handle such an intoxicating drink. Mere mortals usually mixed their wine with water until the 1800s.
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