Caravaggio’s Young Sick Bacchus, known also as Bacchino Malato, is an alluring portrayal of illness and vice. Darkened by suffering, it seems nonetheless also illuminated…
I’m a Californian living in Italy where I became a sommelier with AIS (Associazione Sommelier Italiana). Passionate about perception, I explore wine through art, philosophy and culture, in addition to organizing private tasting events and writing about wine on my blog, Vinthropology, and Instagram @vinthropology
Roman god of wine and harvest inspired by the Greek Dionisius, symbol of controversial rituals celebrating pleasure and inebriation, naked yet crowned, not boy nor…