The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus is a painting by Piero di Cosimo from c. 1499. It depicts the god Bacchus and the discovery of honey, as described in the ancient Roman poem Fasti by Ovid. It is in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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    2 months ago

    The guy on the donkey is Silenus, Bacchus is wrapped in the red shawl at the bottom right holding on to a thyrsus (a staff cover in ivy) and wearing a wreath on his head.