Le Belle 2

Bacchanalia

2010 Based very loosely on Bouguereau’s ‘La Jeunesse de Bacchus’. 

There is a glade near Lake Bolsena of such uncommon beauty that all those who set foot there remain enchanted for ever. This is an Etruscan place, but it could well be even older as a place of worship. The Sacred Glade was Christianised, but something of the magic remained: the frescoes that remain in the church are testimony to that.

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