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Charles Emmanuel II of SavoyCharles Emmanuel II b.June 20, 1634 - d.June 12, 1675, was the Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Maria Christina until 1663.He married
See also: Kings of Savoy his first temple.html">temple in the Lenaeum--the quarter of the winepresses, near
Nysa; its little buildings on the hill-top, still with steep rocky
of Cecrops, with the old miraculous olive-tree still growing there,
temple court.
The artists of the Italian Renaissance have treated Dionysus many
of that glory of nature to which the Renaissance was a return. But
differently. The cold light of the background displays a barren
In the foreground, at the root of a vine, Dionysus is sitting, in a
drawn, and wreathing heavily round the head of the god.html">god.html">god, suggest the
vessel languidly and indifferently, lets the stream of wine flow
heavily a face, comely, but full of an expression of painful
the old Italian engraver, in gathering from his design this
motives are clearer; and in a Bacchus by a young Hebrew painter, in
very fascinating realisation of such a motive; the god of the
Lesbian grape become somewhat brackish in the cup. Touched by the
anything similar in feeling is to be actually found in the range of
in Greek religion? Yes; in a certain darker side of the double god
but never quite forgotten, something corresponding to this deeper,
Zagreus; an image, which has left, indeed, but little effect in Greek
late, scattered hints in various writers; but which is yet
Greek minds here and there; and discernible, not as a late after-
original motive of the idea.html">idea of Dionysus. In its potential, though
poetry, and is, at least, part of the complete.html">complete physiognomy of
a complete survey.
The whole compass of the idea of Dionysus, a dual god of both summer
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