Resumen de Pietro della Vecchia, Giovanni Nani e una rara iconografia bacchica
This study focuses on the relationship between Piero della Vecchia and the patrician Giovanni Nani di S. Trovaso, starting from a new analysis of Bacchus surrounded by four elders, property of Banca Popolare di Vicenza. The author clarifies the heterogeneous iconographic roots of this very notable painting in the Italian Baroque art and proposes a new ideological reading: the Italian contemporary academic culture, centred on the cult of Dionysus, seen as a breaking point with balance forces and as a maker of artistic creativeness.
