Bacchus

Bacchus is shown with a muscular physique, draped in a leopard skin and holding a shallow drinking vessel high above his head. He clutches clusters of grapes to his chest, while a smaller dark-skinned satyr emerges from the background to join the celebration. The entire scene is contained within an oval frame decorated with satyr masks and drinking vessels against a distant mountainous landscape.

In the Neoplatonic tradition revived by Marsilio Ficino, Bacchus represents the 'divine madness' or spiritual intoxication required to elevate the soul toward divine truth. As Lyaeus (the Loosener), he symbolizes the liberation of the mind from earthly constraints through the mysteries of nature and ritual ecstasy.