Satyrs were the companions of the wine god Bacchus, from whom they derived their goat-like features. Busy only with pleasure and mischief, the grinning satyr is surrounded by symbols of fertility and abundance. He wears a garland of flowers on his head, and in the bottom right corner, a horn of fruit and a syrinx are visible - the reeded flute played by such mythical creatures. Annibale made this painting in the last years of the 1580s, while he was still in his native Bologna. Its origin remains unknown, suggesting the possibility that the artist painted it as a studio exercise. At the art school founded by the three Carracci in 1582, students would have studied and reworked images of the male nude, such as the Capodimonte Bacchus and Satyr.
Annibale Carracci (Bologna, 3 November 1560 - Rome, 15 July 1609) was an Italian painter and engraver. In Bologna, with his cousin Ludovico and brother Agostino, he opened the Eclectic School or the "School of Carracci". He was one of the founders of the art movement that became known as the Bolognese School.
Annibale Carracci's works belong to the Baroque, although there is interweaving with classicist elements.
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