Les Bacchantes. Divers Bad painting

Bad painting

it immediately emerged as a polymorphous phenomenon that asserted itself and grew thanks to the political context of the Restoration and

a critical revision

during the 19th century

Les Bacchantes. Divers Bad paintingComposed by the Greek poet Euripides in the late 5th century BC, the tragedy of the Bacchae depicts a power struggle between Dionysus, the god of life forces, and the king of Thebes, Pentheus. For some 1,400 lines, they seek each other out, never finding each other: they do not speak the same language; their goals differ greatly. But the struggle is unequal: Dionysus has divine omnipotence on his side; Pentheus's desires are so excessive that he