Bacchus

The bust presented here, sculpted from a single block of white marble, depicts "Bacchus" Genoa early eighteenth century work of Domenico Parodi (Genoa 1672-1742) and Francesco Biggi (Genoa 1672-1736). The news about the lives of the painter and the sculptor brings her back to Raffaele Soprani (painter and art historian) in the Vite de 'painters, sculptors, and Genoese architects. Revised, augmented, and enriched with notes by Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, painter, Tomo secondo, Genoa, 1759, pp. 208-232. Domenico, Filippo's son, painter, sculptor and architect, in his statuary "was the teacher of the Father: then he continued his study by himself with such accuracy and constancy; that in this profession he succeeded no less than