Dalou’s sculpture Bacchanal (Image: ) A teenage schoolboy made experts at the V&A blush, by pointing out a bungle mixing up Roman and Greek gods. David Bird, 13, was on a trip to the London museum with mum Deborah when he was drawn to an 1879 sculpture by Aimé-Jules Dalou, entitled Bacchanal. Bacchanal means a worshipper of Bacchus, the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, and is used to describe a “wild and drunken celebration”.
The painted plaster sculpture – almost 6ft in diameter – depicts four worshippers of Bacchus taking part in a drunken orgy. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.
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