The wine god, drunk and unsteady, lifts a cup and stares at it with rolling eyes, his soft body tipping back on its rocky base. The young Michelangelo carved it in Rome for Cardinal Raffaele Riario, who rejected it; the banker Jacopo Galli bought it for his garden of antique fragments. Vasari saw in it both a youth's slenderness and a woman's roundness.
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Behind his leg, a small satyr eats the grapes slipping from Bacchus's left hand. The hand holding the cup is a restoration of the early 1550s.
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