Paintings - Pallas and Bacchus

P a l l a s a n d B a c c h u s

That foresight is improved by wine
Father Bacchus and Pallas, both true children of Jupiter, hold this Temple jointly.
She was freed from her father's head, he from his thigh; to Pallas is due the use of the olive, while Bacchus first discovered wine.
Justly are they joined; for if an abstemious man hates wine, he'll have no help from the Goddess.
Andrea Alciato, 1531
Book of Emblems, Emblem 23

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