Drunken Silenus
Anthony van Dyck · 1620
Why it's great
A fat, tipsy old man, a friend of the wine god Bacchus, is held up by satyrs while holding a cup, with grapes and a flushed face. Anthony van Dyck painted it in about 1620.
Where to see it
📍 Gemäldegalerie Alte MeisterDresden, Germany
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Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish painter born in Antwerp in 1599. He was Rubens's most gifted assistant, traveled to Italy, and in 1632 moved to London as court painter to King Charles I, where he set the style for English portraits. He died in London in 1641 at the age of 42.
